The politics of irony in American modernism

"This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw "irony'" emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal, Stratton shows how th...

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Päätekijä: Stratton, Matthew
Yhteisötekijä: ebrary, Inc
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Painos:1st ed.
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  • Introduction: Irony and How It Got That Way
  • Chapter 1: The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s
  • Chapter 2: Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s
  • Chapter 3: The Focus of Satire: Irony and Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos Page
  • Chapter 4: Visible Decisions : Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison
  • Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion
  • Bibliography.