All the Rage
Elfriede Jelinek's Aesthetics of Passionate Subversion
Published on 3. April 2026
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-63667-994-5 (ISBN)
Description
All the Rage introduces Jelinek's work and its critical relevance for understanding contemporary western society while gaining insight into the vibrancy of her aesthetics. Jelinek's experimental reconceptualization of theater and literature and her critical interventions into public discourses that support, promote and endure social injustices are central to this volume. Themes of right-wing populism and neoliberalism, war, gender inequalities, racism, migration, the politics of memory, and the erasure of troubling historical pasts command her work. The volume brings together scholars, translators, and international artists who explore topics ranging from directorial considerations, postdramatic, intertextual and intermedial practices, the experience of performing, teaching and translating Jelinek's work. Thematically relevant today, Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, reveals the possibilities of literature and the stage to expose power, violence, and structural harm.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
20 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
535 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63667-994-5 (9781636679945)
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All the Rage
Elfriede Jelinek's Aesthetics of Passionate Subversion
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Persons
Barbara Kosta, PhD from UC, Berkeley, is Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on gender and ethnicity in twentieth and twenty-first century German-speaking literature, film and visual culture with publications on autobiographical writing, the 1920s modern woman, and women writers. Kosta is the recipient of Fulbright and DAAD awards.
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger is Professor emerita of German, founder of the Max-Kade-Center at Lafayette College and member of the Jelinek-Forschungszentrum. Publications include Elfriede Jelinek: Writing Woman, Nation, and Identity (2007), PASSAGES: Borders-Crossing-Openings. Conversations with Austrian Writers (2021), "Die Jelinek-Literatur und das angloamerikanische Publikum" (2024).
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Barbara Kosta and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
PART I: JELINEK STAGED
Elfriede Jelinek and the Possibilities for an American Postdramatic Theater
Jennifer Marston William
Elfriede Jelinek on Stage: The Jelinek/Stemann Tandem
Piet Defraeye
Elfriede Jelinek and the Art of Silence. A Conversation with Actress Sylvie Rohrer
Bernhard Doppler and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Elfriede Jelinek's Theater for the Ear. Silent Murmurs
Teresa Kovacs
Cassandra's Prophecies. Myths and Right-Wing Populism in Elfriede Jelinek?s Recent Theater Texts
Artur Pelka
PART II: JELINEK'S INTERMEDIAL AND INTERTEXTUAL TAPISTRIES
Desire Without Fantasy: Austria and America in David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Elfriede Jelinek and Olga Neuwirth's Opera Adaptation (2003)
Jack Davis
Elfriede Jelinek and Nicolas Mahler: Der fremde! stoerenfried der ruhe eines sommerabends de ruhe eines friedhofs (2018). The Stranger as Vampire-A Slapstick Play of the Mind
Helga W. Kraft
Intermediality as Communicative Strategy in Elfriede Jelinek's Bambiland (2003)
Britta Kallin
Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013, Charges (The Supplicants), 2016) and the Power of her Homepage Images
Barbara Kosta
Elfriede Jelinek's Exile: Considering the Refugee Experience In and Out of Austria
Anna C. Souchuk
PART III: JELINEK TRANSLATED
Elfriede Jelinek's "Atonal Grammar": Gitta Honegger in Conversation
Barbara Kosta and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
On Gitta Honegger's Translation On the Royal Road. The Burgher King of Elfriede Jelinek's Am Koenigsweg (2017)
Susanne Teutsch
Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013) as Mentor Text for the Creative Writing Project "Voices: Die Schutzsuchenden"
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger and Nika Judith Pfeifer
Contributors
Index
Introduction
Barbara Kosta and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
PART I: JELINEK STAGED
Elfriede Jelinek and the Possibilities for an American Postdramatic Theater
Jennifer Marston William
Elfriede Jelinek on Stage: The Jelinek/Stemann Tandem
Piet Defraeye
Elfriede Jelinek and the Art of Silence. A Conversation with Actress Sylvie Rohrer
Bernhard Doppler and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
Elfriede Jelinek's Theater for the Ear. Silent Murmurs
Teresa Kovacs
Cassandra's Prophecies. Myths and Right-Wing Populism in Elfriede Jelinek?s Recent Theater Texts
Artur Pelka
PART II: JELINEK'S INTERMEDIAL AND INTERTEXTUAL TAPISTRIES
Desire Without Fantasy: Austria and America in David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Elfriede Jelinek and Olga Neuwirth's Opera Adaptation (2003)
Jack Davis
Elfriede Jelinek and Nicolas Mahler: Der fremde! stoerenfried der ruhe eines sommerabends de ruhe eines friedhofs (2018). The Stranger as Vampire-A Slapstick Play of the Mind
Helga W. Kraft
Intermediality as Communicative Strategy in Elfriede Jelinek's Bambiland (2003)
Britta Kallin
Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013, Charges (The Supplicants), 2016) and the Power of her Homepage Images
Barbara Kosta
Elfriede Jelinek's Exile: Considering the Refugee Experience In and Out of Austria
Anna C. Souchuk
PART III: JELINEK TRANSLATED
Elfriede Jelinek's "Atonal Grammar": Gitta Honegger in Conversation
Barbara Kosta and Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger
On Gitta Honegger's Translation On the Royal Road. The Burgher King of Elfriede Jelinek's Am Koenigsweg (2017)
Susanne Teutsch
Elfriede Jelinek's Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013) as Mentor Text for the Creative Writing Project "Voices: Die Schutzsuchenden"
Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger and Nika Judith Pfeifer
Contributors
Index