The Politics of Irony in American Modernism.

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stratton, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Irony in literature.
Satire > History and criticism.
Politics in literature.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics and culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American literature.
Literature and society.
Modernism (Literature)
Politics and culture.
Politics and literature.
Satire.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; 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.

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