Edge of Irony

Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Edge of Irony

Perloff, Marjorie

Editorial University Of Chicago Press
Fecha de edición mayo 2016 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780226054421
224 páginas
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
Dimensiones 600 mm x 900 mm


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Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the geographical entity into which they had been born: in 1918, the empire was dissolved overnight, leaving Austria a small, fragile republic that would last only twenty years before being annexed by Hitlers Third Reich. In this major reconsideration of European modernism, Marjorie Perloff identifies and explores the aesthetic world that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and other former Habsburg territories'an 'Austro-Modernism' that produced a major body of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography.
Perloff explores works ranging from Karl Krauss drama The Last Days of Mankind and Elias Canettis memoir The Tongue Set Free to Ludwig Wittgensteins notebooks and Paul Celans lyric poetry. Throughout, she shows that Austro-Modernist literature is characterized less by the formal and technical inventions of a modernism familiar to us in the work of Joyce and Pound, Dada and Futurism than by a radical irony beneath a seemingly conventional surface; an acute sense of exile; and a sensibility more Eastern, exotic, and erotic than that of its German contemporaries. Skeptical and disillusioned, Austro-Modernism prefers to ask questions rather than formulate answers.
An indispensable study by one of our most distinguished critics, Edge of Irony introduces us to an alternate canon, one that strangely anticipates the dark humor and cynicism of our own twenty-first-century culture.





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