Retrospective Reality and Vienna's Coffee Society: Sophia's Sperl Retreat

by Yulia Maleta

Overview

Book 4 (part of my Series on Vienna's Café Culture) continues my articulation of Slavonic entrepreneurship and the joy de vivre (in everyday life)- discursive to the historic-modern evolution of Viennese coffeehouses/cafés (Maleta 2021; ibid 2022; ibid 2023). Following on from Books 1, 2 and 3, Book 4 focusses on the experiences of lead protagonist, Sophia, whose narrative frames my integrated fictional to non-fictional account of Central European coffeehouses/café life. In the context of 2023 (the year and thereafter), I draw upon Sophia's pensive daily visits to Café Sperl, whilst utilising the third and first persons. For it is at Café Sperl where Sophia gages much inspiration in her goals to be an author/writer, striving to integrate sociological-creative writing objectives. I articulate Sophia's joy de vivre within everyday life and retrospective reality through robust Viennese-Slavonic frames of cultural enlightenment/empowerment (See my Book Series).

Café Sperl is the core setting for my subjective-conceptual analysis, in which I apply robust sociocultural analyses. Arguably, Sperl is framed by its Slavonic heritage, akin to the legendary Siebener- C7 club, patronised by 7 leading creative intellectuals/architects/artists, who mostly originated from Czech/ Bohemian and Slavic lands. Moreover, I address Sophia's childhood struggles along with mature retrospections as an adult; her empowerment now is in writing goals, aspiring to contribute touching words to the world's citizenry. Further, my conceptual position is foregrounded by an integrated creative-sociological approach towards retrospective reality, encompassing Vienna's historic-modern coffee society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798369224465
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	03/31/2023
Series:	Introducing Vienna's Café Culture , #4
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Doctor Yulia Maleta has a PhD in Sociology along with reputable international publications in Slavic-Slavonic Studies, Austro-Hungary History, Qualitative Social Research Methods, Gender Research/ Women's Studies and eNSMS/ Environmentalist New Social Movements. She has worked at the University of Sydney, UNSW and Western Sydney University. Her Books: Retrospective Reality and Vienna’s Coffee Society: Sophia’s Sperl Retreat (2023), The Joy of Everyday Life as a lived coffeehouse experience: Enlightened Viennese and Slavonic frames (2023), Vienna’s Ringstrasse Coffeehouses and Slavonic Creative Flair (2022) and Landmark Viennese Coffeehouses and Cafés: Framed by a Slavonic Joy de Vivre (2021) constitute her 'Vienna' Series.

As part of her Book Series: 'Introducing Vienna’s Café Culture', Dr Maleta highlights Unesco’s (2011) recognition of the Viennese coffeehouse as ‘intangible cultural heritage’ status. Also, she contends that Slavonic peoples have contributed an enlightened cultural legacy to Vienna’s 'evolutionary' coffeehouse heritage, through their entrepreneurial leadership of cafes/patisseries and culinary fare as well as everyday patronage. Dr Maleta also credits the integral role of women as managers/proprietors, pastry chefs and staff within Vienna's evolving café cultural scene, spanning historic (pre Ringstrasse epochs) to modern-day coffeehouse developments. Hence, Dr Maleta acknowledges the valued role of Slavonic peoples' as well as women's agentic competence- framing Vienna's café society- dually in need of current recognition. Her Book Series addresses methodological-personal ambitions- discursive to her role as an author/writer- striving to illuminate the 'joy de vivre'- be it- the integral role of coffeehouse culture to the world's citizenry. In the framework of Café Sperl, Dr Maleta emphasises Sophia’s joy de vivre within everyday life and retrospective reality, whose life goal is to contribute touching words to the world's citizenry (See Book 3).

In addition, Dr Maleta's [Routledge] book: "Feminism, Republicanism, Egalitarianism, Environmentalism: Bill of Rights and Gendered Sustainable Initiatives" (2019, 2021) addresses hegemonic ruling class masculinity and emphasized femininity within renewables organisational governance, critiquing Anglo-Celtic male privilege as a barrier to women’s leadership. Plus, Dr Maleta has published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies, Journal of Sociology and Third Sector Review etc.