The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony - Couverture souple

Enright, D. J.

 
9780192821591: The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0192821598 ISBN 13 : 9780192821591
Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1988

Synopsis

The author - a poet, critic and novelist - concerns himself not with theories of irony, but with its practice, as attack or defence, in both literature and life. He examines individual ironies, verbal and situational, and attempts to gauge their outcome in various spheres: religion, politics, censorship, love and death. He looks at irony as seen in Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust, James, Freud, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Conrad, Mann, Brecht and more recent writers. He discusses irony unrecognized and irony wrongly presumed. The study views irony as a style and as an approach to life and defends it as an often misunderstood attitude. Enright considers both the objections brought against irony and its role in humour.

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Éditeur
Oxford Paperbacks
Date d'édition
1988
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0192821598
ISBN 13 
9780192821591
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780192122537: The Alluring Problem

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0192122533 ISBN 13 :  9780192122537
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1986
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