{"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","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/edge-of-irony-by-marjorie-perloff-9780226566177","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}