The Alluring Problem: an Essay on Irony
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, London, 1986
- Hardcover
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Book condition is fine. Hard cover. 1st edition, published 1986. Book boards clean and unmarked front and back of the book. Spine intact. Text body clean & immaculate. Book block is clean and unmarked all side of the book. Over-all an excellent book and a 1st edition. No extra charges for over-sea shipping as the book weight is under 500grams. Book weight is 0.377kg. The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony is a 1986 book by British poet, critic, and scholar D. J. Enright. Rather than offering a dry, academic theory of irony, the work explores how irony is practiced in real life and literature as a tool for defense, attack, and survival.
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- Title
- The Alluring Problem: an Essay on Irony
- Author
- D.J Enright
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, London
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0192122533
- ISBN 13
- 9780192122537
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 0.377 kilograms
When Jonathan Swift suggested in 1729, in his pamphlet A Modest Proposal, that the Irish might survive overpopulation if only they could be persuaded to eat their own babies, the Irishman was employing that favorite tool of writers and wits: irony. Now, in an entertaining and intriguing new book, D. J. Enright, acclaimed editor of The Oxford Book of Death, has turned his attention to the practice of irony and its many manifestations in both literature and life. Aiming to pursue personal ironies, both verbal and situational, Enright has observed their twists and turns in his own inimitable style. The author takes a fresh look at irony in the works of Shakespeare, Austen, James, Proust and Freud, and a briefer look at such conspicous practitioners as Swift, Fielding and Hardy. He goes on to review the use of irony, or what resembles it, in the works of Pope, Dickens, Conrad, Brecht and other more recent writers. Religion, politics, censorship, love and death are all mined for their rich lode of ironic situations. Among other themes discussed are the perils of irony unrecognised and irony wrongly presumed; the risks run by self-ironists; and the questions "Does romantic irony exist?" and "Must irony have a victim? Can it be sweet?." Enright's reflections vary from musings on the absurdities of acronyms like AIDS and CREEP to a consideration of the apparent absence of irony in China. Although irony commonly generates laughter, some have observed that it can be no laughing matter. But the author concludes this witty and elegant book by noting that, "while irony is an ambiguous gift... it is a gift all the same."
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