Irony on occasion [electronic resource] : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man / Kevin Newmark.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (380 p.)ISBN:- 9780823249398
- 809/.918 23
- PN56.I65 N49 2012
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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