September 27, 2007. The Military Tradition. "Radetzkymarsch." Schnitzler's "Lt. Gustl"

Lecture:  Fin-de-Siècle Vienna & the Military

Imperial & Royal (kaiserlich & königlich = k & k) Army. Track Record since 1748.

Military & Class Structures: 

Code of Honor/Ehrenkodex: Duels

Frequency

Laws Governing Dueling

End os Sanctioned Dueling

Cultural History: Radetsky March

New Year’s Concert + Tradition of Encores

Johann Strauss, Sr.'s Radetsky March:  History                

Film Clip/Musical Example: Vienna New Year's Day Concert: Radetsky March

In-Class Writing Assignment:  Write on one of the following topics:  1) how marriage is portrayed in the story Lt. Gustl  or 2) how the Jews are portrayed.  Do you find Gustl to be anti-Semitic? 

Lecture:  Lt. Gustl

Questions: 

•      What view of the military do we get from Gustl?  Does Schnitzler intend to be critical?

•     How is marriage portrayed?  Is it the cornerstone of bourgeois society like in England or America at this time?  Family Values?  Can we speak of love here or just sex?

•     How are the Jews portrayed?  Is Gustl anti-Semitic?

•      What view do we get of the educated, liberal professional class?

•     Do you find the code of honor in this text exaggerated?

Marriage/Anti-Semitism:

Schnitzler & Freud: 

Interior Monolog/ Stream of Consciousness :  cf. J. Joyce, V. Woolf, M. Proust, Wm. Faulkner, A. Döblin, H. Broch