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The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony (Oxford paperbacks)
D. J. Enright
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Paperback. 8vo .Some minor shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the Author
The author - a poet, critic and novelist - concerns himself not with theories of irony, but with its practice, as attack or defence, in both literature and life. He examines individual ironies, verbal and situational, and attempts to gauge their outcome in various spheres: religion, politics, censorship, love and death. He looks at irony as seen in Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust, James, Freud, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Conrad, Mann, Brecht and more recent writers. He discusses irony unrecognized and irony wrongly presumed. The study views irony as a style and as an approach to life and defends it as an often ... Read more
The author - a poet, critic and novelist - concerns himself not with theories of irony, but with its practice, as attack or defence, in both literature and life. He examines individual ironies, verbal and situational, and attempts to gauge their outcome in various spheres: religion, politics, censorship, love and death. He looks at irony as seen in Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust, James, Freud, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Conrad, Mann, Brecht and more recent writers. He discusses irony unrecognized and irony wrongly presumed. The study views irony as a style and as an approach to life and defends it as an often ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford Paperbacks
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Signed by the author
Yes
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192821591
SKU
KEX0280748
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