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Edge of irony : modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire
- Title
- Edge of irony : modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire / Marjorie Perloff.
- Author
- Perloff, Marjorie
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xv, 204 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm
- Subjects
- Vienna (Austria) > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 > Gerettete Zunge
- Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936 > Letzten Tage der Menschlichkeit
- Modernism (Literature) > Austria
- Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939 > Radetzkymarsch
- Austrian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 > Fackel im Ohr
- Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 > Mann ohne Eigenschaften
- Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994 > Augenspiel
- Austria > History > 1918-1938
- Celan, Paul > Criticism and interpretation
- Note
- "An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as "Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind, " Critical Inquiry 40, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 311-38."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the making of Austro-modernism -- The mediated war: Karl Kraus's The last days of mankind -- The lost hyphen: Joseph Roth's The Radetzky march -- "The subjunctive of possibilities": Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Coming of age in Kakania: mother tongue and identity theft in Canetti's autobiography -- The last Habsburg poet: Paul Celan's love poetry and the limits of language -- Coda: becoming a "different" person: Wittgenstein's "Gospels."
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7945
- ISBN
- 9780226054421
- 022605442X
- LCCN
- 2015038642
- OCLC
- 920017411
- Author
- Perloff, Marjorie, author.
- Title
- Edge of irony : modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire / Marjorie Perloff.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7945