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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stratton, Matthew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014
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.