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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, the author shows how the term cir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stratton, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Irony and How It Got That Way : An Introduction
  • The Eye in Irony : New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s
  • Gendering Irony and Its History : Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s
  • The Focus of Satire : Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos
  • Visible Decisions : Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison
  • Beyond Hope and Memory : A Conclusion.