Edge of irony : modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire / Marjorie Perloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perloff, Marjorie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celan, Paul.

Austrian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Austrian literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Austria.

Modernism (Literature).

Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936. Letzten Tage der Menschlichkeit.

Kraus, Karl.

Roth, Joseph, 1894-1939. Radetzkymarsch.

Roth, Joseph.

Musil, Robert, 1880-1942. Mann ohne Eigenschaften.

Musil, Robert.

Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994. Gerettete Zunge.

Canetti, Elias.

Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994. Fackel im Ohr.

Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994. Augenspiel.

Celan, Paul--Criticism and interpretation.

Criticism and interpretation.

Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Vienna (Austria).

Austria--History--1918-1938.

Austria.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 204 pages, 8 numbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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."

Notes:

"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."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226054421

022605442X

OCLC:

920017411