Edge of irony
Subtitle: modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire
By: Marjorie Perloff
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780226054421; 9780226328492
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Intellectual life; Austrian literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; History
Notes: "An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as "Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind, " Critical Inquiry 40, no. 2 (Winter 2014): 311-38."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the making of Austro-modernism --; title: The mediated war: Karl Kraus's The last days of mankind --; title: The lost hyphen: Joseph Roth's The Radetzky march --; title: "The subjunctive of possibilities": Robert Musil's The man without qualities --; title: Coming of age in Kakania: mother tongue and identity theft in Canetti's autobiography --; title: The last Habsburg poet: Paul Celan's love poetry and the limits of language --; title: Coda: becoming a "different" person: Wittgenstein's "Gospels."