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- catalog abstract ""The Vienna Paradox is the well-known literary critic Marjorie Perloff's memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Vienna; her escape to America in 1938 with her upper-middle-class, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish family; and her self-transformation from the German-speaking Gabriele Mintz to the English-speaking Marjorie - a new American girl who also happened to be the granddaughter of Richard Schuller, the Austrian foreign minister under Chancellor Dollfuss and a special delegate to the League of Nations. Compelling as the story is, this is hardly a conventional memoir. Rather, The Vienna Paradox interweaves biographical anecdote and family history with speculations on the historical development of early 20th-century Vienna as it was experienced by her parents' generation. Moreover, Perloff explores the lives of these cultivated refugees in a democratic United States that was, and remains, deeply suspicious of perceived "elitism." This is, in other words, an intellectual memoir by one of America's leading thinkers, a narrative in which literary and philosophical reference is as central as the personal."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13265393.
- catalog contributor b13265394.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog coverage "Vienna (Austria) Biography.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""The Vienna Paradox is the well-known literary critic Marjorie Perloff's memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Vienna; her escape to America in 1938 with her upper-middle-class, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish family; and her self-transformation from the German-speaking Gabriele Mintz to the English-speaking Marjorie - a new American girl who also happened to be the granddaughter of Richard Schuller, the Austrian foreign minister under Chancellor Dollfuss and a special delegate to the League of Nations. Compelling as the story is, this is hardly a conventional memoir. Rather, The Vienna Paradox interweaves biographical anecdote and family history with speculations on the historical development of early 20th-century Vienna as it was experienced by her parents' generation. Moreover, Perloff explores the lives of these cultivated refugees in a democratic United States that was, and remains, deeply suspicious of perceived "elitism." This is, in other words, an intellectual memoir by one of America's leading thinkers, a narrative in which literary and philosophical reference is as central as the personal."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-274) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: Seductive Vienna -- Anschluss: March 1938 -- "German by the Grace of Goethe" -- Losing Everything But One's Accent: The Refugee Years -- Kultur, Kitsch, and Ethical Culture -- "To Turn into a Different Person" -- Family Tree.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 283 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0811215717 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0811215725 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New Directions Books,".
- catalog spatial "Austria Vienna.".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog spatial "Vienna (Austria) Biography.".
- catalog subject "810.9 B 22".
- catalog subject "Austrian Americans Biography.".
- catalog subject "Critics United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "English teachers United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Jewish families Austria Vienna.".
- catalog subject "Jewish families United States.".
- catalog subject "Jewish refugees United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "PS29.P47 A3 2004".
- catalog subject "Perloff, Marjorie Childhood and youth.".
- catalog subject "Perloff, Marjorie Family.".
- catalog subject "Perloff, Marjorie Homes and haunts Austria Vienna.".
- catalog subject "Perloff, Marjorie.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: Seductive Vienna -- Anschluss: March 1938 -- "German by the Grace of Goethe" -- Losing Everything But One's Accent: The Refugee Years -- Kultur, Kitsch, and Ethical Culture -- "To Turn into a Different Person" -- Family Tree.".
- catalog title "The Vienna paradox : a memoir / by Marjorie Perloff.".
- catalog type "text".