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1	A rhetoric of irony more books like this by Wayne C Booth add to wishlist Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies--and why we often fail when we try to do so. ... see all copies from $6.15! new only from $21.80! \| SVS
2	Essays on Chaucerian irony more books like this by Earle Birney add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
3	Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle more books like this by Yoon Sun Lee add to wishlist Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now. This study shows how Romantic nationalism in Britain explored irony's potential as a powerful source of civic cohesion. The period's leading conservative voices, self-consciously non-English figures such as ... see all copies from $4.82! new only from $4.82! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony more books like this by D J Enright add to wishlist When Jonathan Swift suggested in 1729, in his pamphlet A Modest Proposal, that the Irish might survive overpopulation if only they could be persuaded to eat their own babies, the Irishman was employing that favorite tool of writers and wits: irony. Now, in an entertaining and intriguing new book, D. J. Enright, acclaimed editor of The Oxford Book ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Of irony, especially in drama more books like this by Garnett G. Sedgewick add to wishlist Professor Sedgewick begins his discussion by recognising that irony is a way of speaking with which we are all familiar, a figure of speech used in daily conversation. But there are other ironies: those of allegory, of understatement, of detachment, of fate, and especially the irony used in drama. He explores how the various meanings of irony have ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $24.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Beyond Theory: Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony more books like this by Benjamin Bennett add to wishlist A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1995" In a book of rare breadth of vision, Benjamin Bennett offers a new interpretation of the eighteenth century. He provides nuanced re-evaluations of Goethe, Herder, Hölderlin, Kleist, Lessing, Schiller, and Kant, as well as many other poets and philosophers. He seeks to trace the process by which ... see all copies from $4.29! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
7	Irony more books like this by Claire Colebrook add to wishlist Claire Colebrook traces the history, structure and use of irony, from Greek times to the present. She looks closely at the work of Socrates, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions of irony and applies theories of irony to literary texts. see all copies from $19.72! new only from $19.72! \| SVS
8	Irony in the Medieval Romance more books like this by Dennis Howard Green (Editor) add to wishlist Despite the fashionable standing of irony in studies of modern literature and its occasional application to medieval studies in a number of recent works, no sustained analysis of this phenomenon has yet been attempted for medieval literature. Professor Green attempts to fill the most important part of this lacuna by discussing irony in the ... see all copies from $28.23! new only from $28.23! \| SVS
9	Irony and Ideology in Rabelais: Structures of Subversion more books like this by Jerome Schwartz add to wishlist Over the past two decades since the appearance in the West of Mikhail Bakhtin's study of Rabelais and popular culture, Rabelais's work has been a focus of debate in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The subjects under discussion include questions of fixed authorial meaning and intention versus open and changing readings, and the ... see all copies from $31.17! new only from $31.17! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Tristan Corbiere and the Poetics of Irony more books like this by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe add to wishlist Tristan Corbiere is often viewed as the archetypal poete maudit, a misunderstood rebel and bohemian prankster. This is a study of the poet's innovative use of language. It uses the critical tool of irony to analyse his idiosyncratic verse, showing how he contributed to the general revolution in poetic language that marked the 1870s in France. ... see all copies from $34.80! new only from $61.92! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Comedian as Confidence Man: Studies in Irony Fatigue more books like this by Will Kaufman, Audrey Bilger add to wishlist In this analysis of humourists and their work, Will Kaufman examines the humourist's internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who never can be: the irony fatigue condition. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $7.95!
12	Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal's Third Book of Satires more books like this by Susanna Morton Braund, R L Hunter (Editor), R G Osborne (Editor) add to wishlist Beyond Anger is a detailed literary analysis of the three poems which make up Juvenal's third book of Satires (i.e. Satires 7, 8 and 9). Dr Braund pays particular attention to the satiric techniques Juvenal employs in this book, arguing that in Book III Juvenal uses a new, ironic persona, which makes his satire more indirect, subtle and double ... see all copies from $49.95! new only from $84.37! \| first editions \| SVS
13	The Big Book of Irony more books like this by Jon Winokur add to wishlist Graydon Carter famously pronounced it dead after 9/11. David Foster Wallace decried it as "an agent of despair and stasis in U.S. culture," but admitted liking it anyway. Jon Stewart uses it daily to engage a jaded generation in politics. Yet irony is less understood now than ever. Enter "The Big Book of Irony", wherein Winokur, that master ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $14.82! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	English Romantic Irony more books like this by Anne K Mellor add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| SVS
15	Irony and Discourse of Mod-Cloth more books like this by Ernst Behler add to wishlist see all copies from $16.50! new only from $22.05!
16 view cover	Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900 more books like this by Paula Bernat Bennett add to wishlist Based entirely on archival research, "Poets in the Public Sphere" traces the emergence of the 'New Woman' by examining poetry published by American women in newspapers and magazines between 1800 and 1900. Using sources like the "Kentucky Reporter", the "Cherokee Phoenix", the "Cincinnati Israelite", and the "Atlantic Monthly", Bennett is able to ... see all copies from $20.64! new only from $24.90! \| SVS
17	Self, Text, and Romantic Irony: The Example of Byron more books like this by Frederick Garber add to wishlist see all copies from $6.04! new only from $58.43! \| first editions
18	Henry Fielding and the language of irony more books like this by Glenn W. Hatfield add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Robert Browning's Romantic Irony in the Ring and the Book more books like this by Patricia Diane Rigg add to wishlist This reassessment suggests that Browning constructs a pattern of spiralling concentric circles, on which each of his characters is situated. The speakers specify the pattern of Romantic irony, for they reflect Browning's commitment to the representation of truth. see all copies from $17.07! new only from $50.06!
20 view cover	Soviet Literary Culture in the 1970s: The Politics of Irony more books like this by Anatoly Vishevsky, Michael Biggins (Translator) add to wishlist In this text, Vishevsky writes about the popular culture of the Soviet intellectual during the years of post-Stalinist thaw. Hope and faith were in short supply among Soviet liberals by the late 1960s, and irony was the direct product of disillusion and despair over the apparent abandonment of the promising post-thaw ideals and values. This period ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $76.05! \| first editions
21	A Question of Eros: Irony in Sterne, Kierkegaard, and Barthes more books like this by John Vignaux Smyth add to wishlist see all copies from $15.04! new only from $54.92!
22	Patterns of Irony in the Fables of La Fontaine more books like this by Richard Danner add to wishlist see all copies from $2.74! new only from $23.93! \| first editions
23 view cover	Meaning of Irony: A Psychoanalytic Investigation more books like this by Frank Stringfellow add to wishlist Genuinely interdisciplinary in approach, The Meaning of Irony brings together literary analysis and, from psychoanalysis, both theory and case studies. Its investigation ranges from everyday examples of verbal irony - conscious, and unconscious - to the complex irony of literature. This book provides the first full account of verbal irony from a ... see all copies from $9.84! new only from $17.95!
24	Soviet Literary Culture in the 1970s: The Politics of Irony more books like this by Michael Biggins (Translator), Anatoly Vishevsky add to wishlist In this text, Vishevsky writes about the popular culture of the Soviet intellectual during the years of post-Stalinist thaw. Hope and faith were in short supply among Soviet liberals by the late 1960s, and irony was the direct product of disillusion and despair over the apparent abandonment of the promising post-thaw ideals and values. This period ... see all copies from $2.84! new only from $34.71! \| first editions
25 view cover	Irony in the Drama: An Essay on Impersonation, Shock, and Catharsis more books like this by Robert Boies Sharpe add to wishlist see all copies from $6.74! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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