World War I Lecture Series lecture by Marjorie Perloff January 25, 2015, Getty Center This lecture focuses on Karl Kraus's great anti-war play “The Last Days of Mankind,” which incorporates documentary sources, including newspaper headlines, speeches, and military reports, to produce a devastating picture of the progress of World War I, from its beginnings to its bitter end. The ideas presented in this lecture are part of a larger study of Austro-Modernism, which argues that the writings of Elias Canetti, Paul Celan, Karl Kraus, Joseph Roth, and other novelists and poets born in the Austrian provinces during the pre-World War I period constitute an avant-garde, still largely unknown or misunderstood in the anglophone world. Marjorie Perloff is professor emerita of English and comparative literature at Stanford University and Florence Scott Professor Emerita of English at the University of Southern California. For more about this event, visit the Getty Research Institute's website: www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/events/ww1/ This lecture series complements the exhibition “World War I: War of Images, Images of War,” on view in the Getty Research Institute galleries November 18, 2014, to April 19, 2015: www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/connecting_seas/index.html

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