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Irony's Edge
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Linda Hutcheon
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-09-02 - Publisher: Routledge

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The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space
Edge of Irony
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Marjorie Perloff
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared as "Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind," Critical Inquiry 40, no. 2 (Winter 2014):
Irony's Edge
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Linda Hutcheon
Categories: Irony
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear ana
Irony and the Discourse of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 171
Authors: Ernst Behler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Behler discusses the current state of thought on modernity and postmodernity, detailing the intellectual problems to be faced and examining the positions of suc
The Irony of American History
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Reinhold Niebuhr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-22 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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“[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pai