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Hardback. New. 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 Hitler's 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 Kraus's drama The Last Days of Mankind and Elias Canetti's memoir The Tongue Set Free to Ludwig Wittgenstein's notebooks and Paul Celan's lyric poetry.…
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Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire Hardcover - 2016
by Marjorie Perloff
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- Title Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
- Author Marjorie Perloff
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill
- Date 2016
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780226054421 / 022605442X
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Canetti, Elias, Austrian literature - 20th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015038642
- Dewey Decimal Code 830.994
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