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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Newmark, Kevin, 1951- Irony on occasion. New York : Fordham University Press, 2012 (DLC) 2011037021 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Newmark |
ISBN: | 9780823240166 0823240169 9780823249398 0823249395 9780823242030 082324203X |
OCLC Number: | 787845988 |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction: irony on occasion -- Romantic irony -- Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony -- Taking Kierkegaard apart: the concept of irony -- Modernity interrupted: Kierkegaard's Antigone -- Reading Kierkegaard: to keep intact the secret -- Fear and trembling: "Who is able to understand Abraham?" -- Postromantic irony -- Signs of the times: Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history -- Death in Venice: irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state -- Terrible flowers: Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric -- The irony of tomorrow -- On parole: legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan -- "What is happening today in deconstruction" -- Bewildering: Paul de Man, poetry, politics -- Coda: dark freedom in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace. |
Other Titles: | Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man |
Responsibility: | Kevin Newmark. |
Abstract:
This book examines how the romantic and post-romantic concept of irony provides the means for an uneasy articulation between philosophical thought and literary language. It considers the role played by ironic disruptions in writings by Friedrich Schlegel, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and J.M. Coetzee.
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Timely, provocative, carefully reasoned and argued, and unique in itsscope.----Elizabeth Rottenberg, DePaul University Irony on Occasion is perhaps the best book on irony written since Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony in the early nineteenth century.----J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine Read more...

