The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony (Oxford paperbacks) - Softcover

Enright, D. J.

 
9780192821591: The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony (Oxford paperbacks)
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ISBN 10: 0192821598 ISBN 13: 9780192821591
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1988

Synopsis

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 misunderstood attitude. Enright considers both the objections brought against irony and its role in humour.

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About the Author

About the author: D. J. Enright, poet and critic, is the editor of Fair of Speech: The Uses of Euphemism, and The Oxford Book of Death. His most recent volume of poetry is Instant Chronicles: A Life.

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Publisher
Oxford Paperbacks
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0192821598
ISBN 13 
9780192821591
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192

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