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Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literatures, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically
Lars Elleström
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Description for Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literatures, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically
Hardcover. Num Pages: 307 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 640.
Divine Madness provides a theory that enables the concept of irony to be transferred from the literary to the visual and aural domains. Two stories are being told. One is a story of how literary conceptualization has conquered the fields of the other arts and the other is a story of how literary conceptualization, conversely, has been successively relativized. Elleström provides a survey of the historical roots of the concept of irony as well as a discussion of two hermeneutical "options": irony as a mode of oral communication and irony as a mode of literary expression. The author examines how ... Read more
Divine Madness provides a theory that enables the concept of irony to be transferred from the literary to the visual and aural domains. Two stories are being told. One is a story of how literary conceptualization has conquered the fields of the other arts and the other is a story of how literary conceptualization, conversely, has been successively relativized. Elleström provides a survey of the historical roots of the concept of irony as well as a discussion of two hermeneutical "options": irony as a mode of oral communication and irony as a mode of literary expression. The author examines how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
307
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481488
SKU
V9781611481488
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About Lars Elleström
Lars Elleström earned his M.A. in philosophy and Ph.D. in comparative literature at Lund University in Sweden. He is a member of the International Association of Word and Image Studies, the New Society of Letters at Lund University, and the International Association of for Word and Music Studies. He has been associate professor at the School of Humanities, Växjö University, ... Read more
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