Publication details
"Er wußte so niederträchtig höflich zu bitten!" : realistische Verbundenheit und Verwundbarkeit in Jakob Julius Davids Aus der Wiener Hofbibliothek
| Title in English | "Er wußte so niederträchtig höflich zu bitten!" : realistic connectedness and vulnerability in Jakob Julius David's Aus der Wiener Hofbibliothek |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Peer-reviewed scientific article |
| Magazine / Source | Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik |
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| Citation | |
| web | https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/digilib.82878 |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.5817/BBGN2025-2-4 |
| Keywords | Jakob Julius David; Poetic Realism; Habsburg Monarchy / Austro-Hungarian Empire; Vienna Court Library; Heterodiegetic Narrator; Cultural Institutions; Language of Connectedness |
| Description | Jakob Julius David's prose sketch From the Vienna Court Library (around 1890) turns the imperial library into a miniature model of late Habsburg society. Princes, students, 'bluestockings' and impoverished copyists coexist and show how poetic-realistic storytelling can unite social diversity and at the same time reveal its fragility. Through typifying details, an ironic heterodiegetic voice and an elegiac ending, David shows that cultural institutions create solidarity but abandon the precarious. This essay argues that this tension makes David's realist poetics a 'language of connectedness' for a modern, multilingual empire. |
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