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A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books)
Wayne C. Booth
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Description for A Rhetoric of Irony (Phoenix Books)
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6figs. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies—and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the ... Read more
Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies—and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
Phoenix Books
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226065533
SKU
V9780226065533
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