Critical Irony, Renewed : Engaging Faith and Culture with Terry Eagleton

Samuel Curkpatrick

ISBN 10: 3032081505 / ISBN 13: 9783032081506

Edité par Springer International Publishing, 2026

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Irony is a pervasive quality of human life, though its creative, comic potential is often overlooked. Traditionally, it has been cast in a subversive role, as the tool of the detached critic or sceptic. In Critical Irony, Renewed, Samuel Curkpatrick offers a fresh take, showing how irony can transform negativity to inspire imagination, hope and ethical action. Drawing on the work of literary theorist Terry Eagleton, this book explores the potential for irony to renew social and political imagination, while retaining a clear-eyed view of human fragility and limitation.Curkpatrick examines Eagleton s writings alongside the comic tonalities of Christian parables,revealing how irony can function as a means of saying by unsaying a dynamic and paradoxical form of critical perspective that enriches human creativity, ethical engagement and cultural dialogue. Critical Irony, Reneweddemonstrates that irony, far from undermining identity, faith and culture, opens new possibilities for understanding and transforming our world. A compelling exploration for scholars and general readers alike, this work redefines irony s role in literature, culture, philosophy and theology, offering a glimpse of how we might think and act differently amid the very contradictions of human experience.

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• Titre: Critical Irony, Renewed : Engaging Faith and Culture with Terry Eagleton
• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing
• Date de parution: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3032081505
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783032081506
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 216 L x 153 H x 13 P (en millimètres) 216 millimètres de largeur par 153 millimètres de hauteur par 13 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 306 grammes

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Irony is a pervasive quality of human life, though its creative, comic potential is often overlooked. Traditionally, it has been cast in a subversive role, as the tool of the detached critic or sceptic. In Critical Irony, Renewed, Samuel Curkpatrick offers a fresh take, showing how irony can transform negativity to inspire imagination, hope and ethical action. Drawing on the work of literary theorist Terry Eagleton, this book explores the potential for irony to renew social and political imagination, while retaining a clear-eyed view of human fragility and limitation.

Curkpatrick examines Eagleton’s writings alongside the comic tonalities of Christian parables, revealing how irony can function as a means of saying by unsaying – a dynamic and paradoxical form of critical perspective that enriches human creativity, ethical engagement and cultural dialogue. Critical Irony, Renewed demonstrates that irony, far from undermining identity, faith and culture, opens new possibilities for understanding and transforming our world. A compelling exploration for scholars and general readers alike, this work redefines irony’s role in literature, culture, philosophy and theology, offering a glimpse of how we might think and act differently amid the very contradictions of human experience.

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Samuel Curkpatrick is a McKenzie Research Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, the University of Melbourne. He specialises in Australian Indigenous music, and philosophical issues of language, epistemology and religion. His other books include Singing Bones: Ancestral Creative and Collaboration (Sydney University Press, 2020) and Indigenous Knowledge: Australian Perspectives (ed. Langton, Corn and Curkpatrick, Melbourne University Press, 2024).