Muecke Irony and the Ironic

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-38833-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 12, 128 Seiten

Reihe: The Critical Idiom Reissued

First published in 1970 and revised in 1982, this work provides a critical overview of the concept of irony in literary criticism. After establishing the relationship of the ironical and the non-ironical, it summarises the history of the concept of irony, before isolating and discussing its basic aspects and the variable features that determine its nature, effect and quality.

The book will be a useful resource for those studying irony and English Literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muecke, D. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. The evolution of a concept 3. The anatomy of irony 4. The practice of irony; Bibliography; Index