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Edge of Irony
Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
Buch von Marjorie Perloff
Sprache: Englisch

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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 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. 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.
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. 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780226054421
ISBN-10: 022605442X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Perloff, Marjorie
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 236 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Marjorie Perloff
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,522 kg
Artikel-ID: 104226485
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Neuzeit
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780226054421
ISBN-10: 022605442X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Perloff, Marjorie
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 236 x 156 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Marjorie Perloff
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2016
Gewicht: 0,522 kg
Artikel-ID: 104226485
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