A Review of Marjorie Perloff, Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Foreign Literature Studies ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 150-155.

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A Review of Marjorie Perloff, Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Zhang Jie, Huang Yunte

Online:2017-04-25 Published:2022-06-15
About author:Zhang Jie is lecturer at Anhui Normal University(Wuhu 241002, China). She received her Ph.D. in English from Sun Yat-sen University. Her research interests include translation studies, modernism, and comparative literature. Email: jzuscn@gmail.com. Huang Yunte is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include poetry and poetics, comparative literature, and translation studies. Email: yuntehuang@yahoo.com

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Abstract: Marjorie Perloff's new book, Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016, is a major study of Austro-Modernism. It provides an alternative to modernist literature. This review presents an in-depth analysis of Perloff's new book and identifies the most original and important contribution this foremost literary critic makes by pitching the ethics of irony against the modernist aesthetics of formal experimentation and the world politics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Key words: Marjorie Perloff, modernism, irony, poetry and poetics

Zhang Jie, Huang Yunte. A Review of Marjorie Perloff, Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(2): 150-155.

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