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020			_a9780823255481
020			_z9780823255450 (hardback)
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040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aPS228.I74 _bS87 2014
082	0	0	_a810.9/18 _223
100	1		_aStratton, Matthew.
245	1	4	_aThe politics of irony in American modernism _h[electronic resource] / _cMatthew Stratton.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c[2014] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Irony and How It Got That Way -- Chapter 1: The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s -- Chapter 2: Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s -- Chapter 3: The Focus of Satire: Irony and Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos Page -- Chapter 4: Visible Decisions : Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison -- Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion -- Bibliography.
520			_a"This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw "irony'" emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal, Stratton shows how the term circulated widely in literary and popular culture to describe politically engaged forms of writing. It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive definitions of "irony" inductively, showing how writers employed it as a keyword both before and in opposition to the institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many others"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aModernism (Literature) _zUnited States.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitics and culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitics and literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitics in literature.
650		0	_aSatire _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aIrony in literature.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823255481/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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