{"title":"Marjorie Perloff","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarjorie Perloff’s work offers a profound exploration of contemporary poetics and avant-garde literature, delving into the intersections of language, culture, and modern artistic expression. Her writings, including titles like \u003cem\u003eEdge of Irony\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers to reconsider the boundaries of poetry and the evolving nature of literary forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted firmly in \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, Perloff’s books challenge conventional aesthetics while providing insightful commentary on the shifting landscapes of 20th and 21st-century literature. Her critical approach appeals to readers interested in the innovative and intellectual currents shaping modern art and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"edge-of-irony-by-marjorie-perloff-9780226566177","title":"Edge of Irony","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerloff explores works ranging from Karl Kraus’s drama \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Mankind\u003c\/i\u003e and Elias Canetti’s memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Tongue Set Free\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSkeptical and disillusioned, Austro-Modernism prefers to ask questions rather than formulate answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470499430636,"sku":"9780226566177","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226566177-edge-of-irony.jpg?v=1775220276"},{"product_id":"infrathin-by-marjorie-perloff-9780226798509","title":"Infrathin","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEsteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe “infrathin” was Marcel Duchamp’s playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mould. “Eat” is not the same thing as “ate.” The poetic, Marjorie Perloff suggests, can best be understood as the language of infrathin. For in poetry, whether in verse or prose, words and phrases that are seemingly unrelated in ordinary discourse are realigned by means of sound, visual layout, etymology, grammar, and construction so as to “make it new.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her revisionist “micropoetics,” Perloff draws primarily on major modernist poets from Stein and Yeats to Beckett, suggesting that the usual emphasis on what this or that poem is “about” does not do justice to its infrathin possibilities. From Goethe’s eight-line “Wanderer’s Night Song” to Eliot’s \u003cem\u003eFour Quartets\u003c\/em\u003e, to the minimalist lyric of Rae Armantrout, \u003cem\u003eInfrathin\u003c\/em\u003e is designed to challenge our current habits of reading and to answer the central question: what is it that makes poetry \u003cem\u003epoetry\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470865744108,"sku":"9780226798509","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226798509-infrathin.jpg?v=1775229303"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/marjorie-perloff.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}