Edge of Irony
Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire
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Preface
Introduction: The Making of Austro-Modernism
1. The Mediated War
Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind
2. The Lost Hyphen
Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March
3. “The Subjunctive of Possibilities”
Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities
4. Coming of Age in Kakania
Mother Tongue and Identity Theft in Canetti’s Autobiography
5. The Last Hapsburg Poet
Paul Celan’s Love Poetry and the Limits of Language
Coda: Becoming a “Different” Person
Wittgenstein’s “Gospels”
Notes
Index
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