The Politics of Irony in American Modernism.
Title:
The Politics of Irony in American Modernism.
Author:
Stratton, Matthew.
ISBN:
9780823255481
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Irony and How It Got That Way: An Introduction -- 1 / The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s -- 2 / Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s -- 3 / The Focus of Satire: Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos -- 4 / Visible Decisions: Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison -- Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The Politics of Irony in American Modernism traces how "irony" emerged as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices in American literature of the twentieth century's first half. It is the first study to derive definitions of irony inductively from its widespread use within modernist culture.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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