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.
Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.
Marjorie Perloff, critic of 20th-century poetry, argues that Wittgenstein speaks to poets because he provides a way out of the impasse of high versus low discourse, demonstrating the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language.
Focusing on the immersive experience of poetry, the book emphasizes the importance of reading poems meticulously, appreciating each word and line. Marjorie Perloff offers a scholarly yet accessible exploration that celebrates the joys of poetic texts while advocating for the value of diversity in interpretation. The work is both thought-provoking and enlightening, inviting readers to engage deeply with the nuances of poetry.
Previously known as an art-world figure, but now regarded as an important poet, Frank O'Hara is examined in this study. It traces the poet's French connection and the influence of the visual arts on his work. This edition includes a new introduction with a reconsideration of O'Hara's lyric.
Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book Traffic.
Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism.
A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics.
This examination of the flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in European art and literature of the twentieth century, offers considerations of futurist work from Russia to Italy.
Die Moderne im Schatten des Habsburgerreichs: Karl Kraus, Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, Paul Celan und Ludwig Wittgenstein
Vor 100 Jahren begann eine Zeit, in der es keine Gewissheiten mehr gab. In ihrem großen Essay zur europäischen Moderne erforscht Marjorie Perloff die ästhetische Welt, die aus den Trümmern Wiens und der habsburgischen Länder hervorging und die unsere Gegenwart nach wie vor prägt. Für viele der brillanten Autoren und Denker, die der multikulturellen und vielsprachigen Welt der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie entstammen, bestand das Trauma des Ersten Weltkrieges vor allem im plötzlichen Verlust jener geografischen Einheit, in der sie geboren worden waren. Die Autorin untersucht Karl Kraus’ „Die letzten Tage der Menschheit“, Joseph Roths „Radetzkymarsch“, Robert Musils „Mann ohne Eigenschaften“, Elias Canettis „Die gerettete Zunge“, die Gedichte Paul Celans und die Tagebücher Ludwig Wittgensteins. Sie zeigt, dass alle Werke eines gemeinsam haben: die radikale Ironie unter einer scheinbar konventionellen Oberfläche.