Marjorie Perloff

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Marjorie Perloff , born as Gabriele Mintz (born September 28, 1931 in Vienna ) is an Austrian-American literary scholar.

Life

Gabriele Mintz is the daughter of the lawyer Maximilian Mintz and the economist Ilse Mintz , her grandfather Richard Schüller was an Austrian high official in the Foreign Ministry and envoy to the League of Nations , who had to flee from Europe to the USA in 1938 because of the Nazi persecution of Jews. Her parents also managed to escape Austria in 1938 and the family moved to Riverdale , Bronx . Her brother Walter Mintz (1929-2004) became an investment banker.

Gabriele Mintz took the first name Marjorie as a teenager and attended Oberlin College and Barnard College from 1949 to 1952 . She married the cardiologist Joseph Perloff (1924–2014) in 1954 and they have two children.

Perloff graduated from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1956 after interruptions due to raising children, where she received her PhD there in 1965 with a dissertation on WB Yeats . Perloff taught from 1966 to 1971 at Catholic University and then received a professorship in English at the University of Maryland, College Park (1971-1976). Further professorships were from 1976 to 1986 at the University of Southern California and the following years until her retirement in 2001 at Stanford University . As an emerita, she returned to the University of Southern California to teach there. She became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997 .

Perloff first worked on the works of the writers Yeats, Robert Lowell and Frank O'Hara . The focus of her literary work then shifted to the current literary avant-garde. Her essays and literary reviews have appeared in Times Literary Supplement (TLS) and The Washington Post , among others .

Fonts (selection)

  • Rhyme and meaning in the poetry of Yeats . The Hague: Mouton, 1970
  • The poetic art of Robert Lowell . Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Pr., 1973 ISBN 0-8014-0771-0
  • Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters . Braziller, 1977 ISBN 978-0-226-66059-2
  • The poetics of indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage . Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1981 ISBN 0-691-06244-7
  • The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition . Northwestern University Press, 1996 ISBN 978-0-8101-1380-0 , first 1985
  • The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture. With a new preface . University of Chicago Press, 2003 ISBN 978-0-226-65738-7 , first 1986
  • Poetic License: Studies in the Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric . Northwestern University Press, 1990 ISBN 978-0-8101-0843-1
  • Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media . University of Chicago Press, 1991 ISBN 978-0-226-65733-2
  • Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary . University of Chicago Press, 1996 ISBN 978-0-226-66058-5
  • Poetry On and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions . Northwestern University Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-8101-1560-6
  • 21st-century modernism: the "new" poetics . Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2002 ISBN 0-631-21969-2
  • Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy . University of Alabama Press, 2004 ISBN 978-0-8173-1421-7
  • The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir . New Directions Books, 2004 ISBN 978-0-8112-1571-8
  • Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century . University of Chicago Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-226-66061-5
  • John Ashbery : A Cosmopolitan Country: Poems; bilingual . Translation Gerhard Falkner, Marjorie Perloff. Wiesbaden: Luxbooks, 2010 ISBN 9783939557265
  • Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays . University of Chicago Press, 2014 ISBN 978-0-226-19941-2
  • Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire . University of Chicago Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0-226-56617-7

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Perloff , at Jüdisches Museum Hohenems
personal data
SURNAME Perloff, Marjorie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mintz, Gabriele (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna