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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| Lingua: | inglese |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Edizione: | 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.