Edge of irony : modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire /
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The University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago : |
Publication Dates: | 2016. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Item Description: |
"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 index. |
Carrier Form: | xv, 204 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm |
ISBN: |
9780226054421 022605442X |
Index Number: | PT3818 |
CLC: | I521.064 |
Call Number: | I521.064/P451 |
Contents: |
Introduction: the making of Austro-modernism -- The mediated war: Karl Kraus's The last days of mankind -- The lost hyphen: Joseph Roth's The Radetzky march -- "The subjunctive of possibilities": Robert Musil's The man without qualities -- Coming of age in Kakania: mother tongue and identity theft in Canetti's autobiography -- The last Habsburg poet: Paul Celan's love poetry and the limits of language -- Coda: becoming a "different" person: Wittgenstein's "Gospels." |