Contested passions

"The foundation and point of departure for this collection of articles was the annual conference of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association (MALCA) in April 2007 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, under the organization of the editors and the Wirth Institute of Austrian and Central European Studies. While most of the articles are based on papers presented at that conference, others augment the collection -- some published elsewhere, 1 others [sic] solicited after the conference"--Fwd.