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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.