<i>Apropos Avantgarde: Neue Einblicke nach einhundert Jahren</i> ed. by Dolors Sabaté Planes and Jaime Feijóo (review)

fi rst p art, Diet er B reuer studies “L aurentius v on S chnüffi s und die öst erreichische Literaturgeschichte” (465– 75). Th e second part contains an essay on Sigmund von Birken as a translator by Hartmut Laufh ütt e (490– 511) and a textbased study of P rotestantism in Burgenland by Dietz Rüdiger Moser (512– 25). Under “Performative Kulturen” are an essa y by K arlHeinz Huber on one of the pla ys f rom the Austr ian Bene dictine the ater tr adition (526– 54) and a tr eatment by Orsolya H anusz of oneact comedies in the Biedermeier age, including short forms of Hungarian comedy (555– 81). Two further pieces, included under “R ezeptionslandschaЀ en,” complete this formidable volume; one, by Claudia Schweizer, draws on Joseph Stanislaus Zauper’s Studien über Goethe to exemplify the reception of the la tt er during the Vormärz period (582– 602); the other, by H artmut Steinecke, treats “Heine in Ö sterreich” (603– 18). If only for its bibliography, this volume would be essential for any student of Austrian literature and cultur e. Beyond that necessary tool, however, the essays are as competent as they are varied in topic. Historical research is the emphasis here, and the c ontributions are model s of Literaturwissenschaft , a term too oЀ en infl ated and selfcongratulatory. Vincent Kling La Salle University