Angustia socialis. Zur literarischen Physiologie der Angst in Werken von Stefan Zweig, Marlene Streeruwitz und Clemens Setz
Angustia socialis. On the literary physiology of anxiety in the works of Stefan Zweig, Marlene Streeruwitz and Clemens Setz

Summary/Abstract: This essay thematises manifestations of anxiety in literature and their functions, taking into account the sociological findings of Heinz Bude and Lars Koch. The analyses of representative literary texts by Stefan Zweig, Marlene Streeruwitz and Clemens Setz illustrate the forms and causes of the social anxiety of falling, with the focus on women's existences and objectless anxiety. The existential semantics of anxiety is developed in the text.

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