Edge of Irony - Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire Perloff Marjorie
Edge of Irony - Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire Perloff Marjorie Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the…
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Edge of Irony - Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire Perloff Marjorie
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. 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 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.