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Edge of Irony Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226566177, ISBN: HB: 9780226054421, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 26 halftones

Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of...

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Poetry

Poetics in a New Key Interviews and Essays

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226199412, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to "Poetics in a New Key" that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was "at once honored and mystified". But to Perloff's surprise and her re...

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History of Art

Carl Andre Sculpture as Place

Raymond Yasmil, Cherix Christophe, Holmes Brooke, Katz Vincent, Perloff Marjorie, Pierre Arnauld, Rorimer Anne, Tuchman Phyllis, Vergne Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300191714, Yale University Press, March 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre's creativ...

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Literary Criticism

Poetry

Unoriginal Genius Poetry by Other Means in the New Century

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226660622, ISBN: HB: 9780226660615, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 44 halftones

What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information – a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a...

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History of Art

Futurist Moment Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, with a New Preface

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226657387, University of Chicago Press, December 2003
336 pp., 23.5x15.8 cm

Marjorie Perloff's stunning book was one of the first to offer a serious and far-reaching examination of the momentous flourishing of Futurist aesthetics in the European art and literature of the early twentieth century. Offering penetrating consider...

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Philosophy

Wittgenstein's Ladder Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Perloff Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780226660608, University of Chicago Press, March 1999
306 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenst...

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