Irony and the Logic of Modernity, Armen Avanessian

Автор: Dane Joseph a.
Название: The Critical Mythology of Irony
ISBN: 0820338087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820338088
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Описание: An ambitious theoretical work that ranges from the age of Socrates to the late twentieth century, this book traces the development of the concepts of irony within the history of Western literary criticism. Will appeal to a broad spectrum of scholars concerned with the historical basis of critical language and its political implications.

Автор: R. Ward Holder, Peter B. Josephson
Название: The Irony of Barack Obama: Barack Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr and the Problem of Christian Statecraft
ISBN: 1409442128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409442127
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Drawing on the political theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, described by Barack Obama as "one of my favourite philosophers", this book assesses the challenges facing the President during his first term. It evaluates his success in adhering to Niebuhr`s path of "Christian realism" when faced with the pragmatic demands of domestic and foreign affairs.

Название: Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
ISBN: 1138590614 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138590618
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Описание: This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chinese state. It collects ethnographies of irony and cynicism in social action, written by a group of anthropologists.

Автор: Colebrook, Claire
Название: Irony
ISBN: 0415251346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415251341
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Описание: A clear, concise guide to the history and structure of irony from Socrates to the Derrida and Deleuze. Explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions of irony.

Автор: Cherlin Michael
Название: Varieties of Musical Irony
ISBN: 110714129X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107141292
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Tracing the development of irony in language and expression, the book contemplates irony`s relationship with music and examines its use in the works of major Classical and Romantic composers. This interdisciplinary volume will appeal to those interested in the parallels between literature and music.

Автор: Armen Avanessian
Название: Irony and the Logic of Modernity
ISBN: 3110302209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110302202
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g. in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the dandy. It fully develops in the novel, the modern genre par excellence: in novels of the early 19th century no less than in those of postmodernity or in those of the masters of citation, parody, and pastiche of classical modernism (Musil, Joyce, and Proust). This book, however, goes one step further. Looking at how such different authors as Schmitt, Kafka, and Rorty identify the political conflicts, contradictions, and paradoxes of the 20th century as ironical and offers a comprehensive account of the constitutive irony of modernity’s ethical, poetical, and political logic.

Автор: Andrew Eastham
Название: Aesthetic Afterlives: Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty
ISBN: 1472512103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472512109
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Since the development of British Aestheticism in the 1870s, the concept of irony has focused a series of anxieties which are integral to modern literary practice. Examining some of the most important debates in post-Romantic aesthetics through highly focused textual readings of authors from Walter Pater and Henry James to Samuel Beckett and Alan Hollinghurst, this study investigates the dialectical position of irony in Aestheticism and its twentieth-century afterlives. Aesthetic Afterlives constructs a far-reaching theoretical narrative by positioning Victorian Aestheticism as the basis of Literary Modernity. Aestheticism's cultivation of irony and reflexive detachment was central to this legacy, but it was also the focus of its own self-critique. Anxieties about the concept and practice of irony persisted through Modernism, and have recently been positioned in Hollinghurst's work as a symptom of the political stasis within post-modern culture. Referring to the recent debates about the ‘new aestheticism' and the politics of aesthetics, Eastham asks how a utopian Aestheticism can be reconstructed from the problematics of irony and aesthetic autonomy that haunted writers from Pater to Adorno.

Автор: Storm
Название: Irony and the Modern Theatre
ISBN: 1316632415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316632413
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: William Storm explores the significance of irony in the modern theatre, investigating major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht. Focusing on well-known representative characters, from Ibsen`s Halvard Solness to Stoppard`s Septimus Hodge, he demonstrates how these key theatrical figures enact, embody and personify irony.

Автор: Seymour Nicole
Название: Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age
ISBN: 1517903890 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517903893
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Описание: Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about alarming issues, the less likely we are to act. Meanwhile, environmentalists have acquired a reputation as gloom-and-doom killjoys. Bad Environmentalism identifies contemporary texts that respond to these absurdities and ironies through absurdity and irony-as well as camp, frivolity, irreverence, perversity, and playfulness. Nicole Seymour develops the concept of “bad environmentalism”: cultural thought that employs dissident affects and sensibilities to reflect critically on our current moment and on mainstream environmental activism. From the television show Wildboyz to the short film series Green Porno, Seymour shows that this tradition of thought is widespread-spanning animation, documentary, fiction film, performance art, poetry, prose fiction, social media, and stand-up comedy since at least 1975. Seymour argues that these texts reject self-righteousness and sentimentality, undercutting public negativity toward activism and questioning basic environmentalist assumptions: that love and reverence are required for ethical relationships with the nonhuman and that knowledge is key to addressing problems like climate change.Funny and original, Bad Environmentalism champions the practice of alternative green politics. From drag performance to Indigenous comedy, Seymour expands our understanding of how environmental art and activism can be pleasurable, even in a time of undeniable crisis.

Автор: Karl McDaniel
Название: Experiencing Irony in the First Gospel: Suspense, Surprise and Curiosity
ISBN: 0567180042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780567180049
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Gospel of Matthew is both deliberately deceptive and emotionally compelling.Karl McDaniel explores ways in which the narrative of the Gospel of Matthew elicits and develops the emotions ofsuspense, surprise, and curiosity within its readers. While Matthew 1:21 invites readers to expect Jewish salvation, progressive failure of the plot's main characters to meet Jesus' salvation requirements creates increasing suspense for the reader. How will Jesus save 'his people'? The commission to the Gentiles at the Gospel's conclusion provokes reader surprise, and the resulting curiosity calls readers back to the narrative's beginning.Upon rereading with a retrospective view, readers discover that the Gentile mission was actually foreshadowed throughout the narrative, even from its beginning, and they are invited to partake in Jesus' final commission.

Автор: Garber Frederick
Название: Self, Text, and Romantic Irony: The Example of Byron
ISBN: 0691600325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691600321
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Frederick Garber takes up in detail several problems of the self broached in his previous book, The Autonomy of the Self from Richardson to Huysmans (Princeton, 1982). Using patterns in Byron`s canon as models, he focuses on the relations of self-making and text-making as a central Romantic issue. For Byron and many of his contemporaries, putting a

Автор: Winner Anthony
Название: Culture and Irony: Studies in Joseph Conrad`s Major Novels
ISBN: 0813929466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813929460
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Описание: Conrad's major novels-Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes-tell of illusions and betrayals, dreams and lies. Ambiguity, contradiction, and irony so dominate the narratives that the more closely one reads, the more difficult it becomes to know what is real or what is true. While Conrad's impressionism teaches one to see, his irony casts doubt on the meaning of what one has seen. Facts have little value, yet beliefs are futile or hollow because they ignore facts. Irony turns every certainty into uncertainty. Even the cultural values upon which the irony seems to rest are often mocked. This perplexity, which is the binding force of Conrad's art, is thoroughly examined in Culture and Irony.