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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: States, Bert O. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Drama > History and criticism.
Irony.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique.
Ironie.
irony.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Drama
Irony
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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

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