{"product_id":"edge-of-irony-marjorie-perloff-9780226566177","title":"Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Perloff explores works ranging from Karl Kraus's drama \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e and Elias Canetti's memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Tongue Set Free\u003c\/i\u003e to Ludwig Wittgenstein's notebooks and Paul Celan's 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 erotic and quixotic than that of its German contemporaries. Skeptical and disillusioned, Austro-Modernism prefers to ask questions rather than formulate answers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marjorie Perloff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022656617X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226566177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Marjorie Perloff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946346152191,"sku":"9780226566177","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1c518805-f63f-4729-bf38-4a829cfb8c26.jpg?v=1681512621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/edge-of-irony-marjorie-perloff-9780226566177","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}