The Politics of Irony in American Modernism /

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Shortlisted for the 2015 Modernist Studies Association Book PrizeThis 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 i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stratton, Matthew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Temas:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Irony in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Politics and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics in literature.
Satire > History and criticism.
American Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Aesthetics.
American literature.
culture.
irony.
modernism.
novel.
politics.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Irony and How It Got That Way: An Introduction
  • 1. The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s
  • 2. Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s
  • 3. The Focus of Satire: Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos
  • 4. Visible Decisions: Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison
  • Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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