ISBN 9780226054421
Citation:
Perloff, Marjorie. Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Contents:
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: The Making of Austro-Modernism
1. The Mediated War: Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind
2. The Lost Hyphen: Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March
3. “The Subjunctive of Possibilitiesâ€: Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities
4. Coming of Age in Kakania: Mother Tongue and Identity Theft in Canetti’s Autobiography
5. The Last Hapsburg Poet: Paul Celan’s Love Poetry and the Limits of Language
Coda: Becoming a “Different†Person: Wittgenstein’s “Gospelsâ€
Notes
Index
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Reviews:
- Kirsch, Adam. “Ironists of a Vanished Empire.” The New York Review of Books (June 22, 2017).
- Burns, Shannon. Australian Book Review 391 (May 2017).
- Daub, Adrian. “We Other Kakanians: Literature in the Aftermath of Empire.” The Los Angeles Review of Books (January 29, 2017).
- Klein, Scott W. Modernism / Modernity 24.1 (January 2017).
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