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Marjorie Perloff

Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff

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May 2017, no. 391
Shannon Burns reviews 'Edge of Irony: Modernism in the shadow of the Habsburg Empire' by Marjorie Perloff

In her introduction to Edge of Irony, Marjorie Perloff claims that in order to ‘understand Modernism ... we have to read, more closely than we have, the deeply ironic war literature of the defunct, multicultural, and polyglot Austro-Hungarian Empire’ ...

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