Linda Hutcheon

Irony's Edge (eBook, ePUB)

The Theory and Politics of Irony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding.

Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum.

Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134937547
• Artikelnr.: 47887843

Autorenporträt

Arthur F. Kinney

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Illustrations Introduction: The `Scene' of Irony Acknowledgements
1. Risky Business: The `Transideological' Politics of Irony 2. The Cutting
Edge 3. Modelling Meaning: The Semantics of Irony 4. discursive
Communities: How Irony `Happens' 5. Intention and Interpretation: Irony and
the Eye of the Beholder 6. Frame-ups and their marks: The Recognition or
Attribution of Irony 7. The End(s) of Irony: The Politics fo
Appropriateness Bibliography