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Irony on occasion

Newmark, Kevin, 1951-

Irony on occasion from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man / [electronic resource] : Kevin Newmark. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (380 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : irony on occasion -- Romantic irony -- Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony -- Taking Kierkegaard apart : on the concept of irony -- Modernity interrupted : Kierkegaard's Antigone -- Reading Kierkegaard : to keep intact the secret -- Fear and trembling : "Who is able to understand Abraham?" -- Post-romantic irony -- Signs of the times : Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history -- Death in Venice : irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state -- Terrible flowers : Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric -- The irony of tomorrow -- On parole : legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan -- "What is happening today in deconstruction" -- Bewildering : Paul de Man, poetry, politics -- Coda : dark freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

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Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Criticism.
Deconstruction.
Romanticism.
Philosophy in literature.
Literature--Philosophy.
Irony.
Irony in literature.


Electronic books.

PN56.I65 / N49 2012

809/.918