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Irony and Drama : A Poetics /
Professor States provides nothing less than a new theory of the drama based upon the principles of irony and dialectic. Very close in approach to the Continental structuralists, he treats irony, not as a literary device or as an attitude in the mind of the playgoer, but as a means of confronting rea...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Irony, Dialectic, and Drama
- 2. The Art of Peripety
- 3. Tragedy as Mastered Irony
- 4. Comedy, Tragedy, and the Grotesque
- 5. The Ironic Drama: Chekhov
- 6. The Patterns of Irony
- 7. The Dialectical Drama: Ibsen and His Followers
- 8. From Dialectics to Description
- 9. The Lyric Act
- 10. Postscript on the Limits of Irony
- Index