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Edge of Irony : Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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...
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- Author
- Marjorie Perloff
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226054421
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (21 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14