Theodor Fontane: Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age, Brian Tucker

Автор: Booth, Wayne C.
Название: A Rhetoric of Irony
ISBN: 0226065537 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226065533
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Описание: Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than irony, and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies--and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its clear and obvious meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting what the words say and reconstructing what the author means?

In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls stable irony, irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities--ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the infinite absolute negativities that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period.

Professor Booth is always ironically aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he explores--with the help of Plato--the wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony.

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: Prickett
Название: Narrative, Religion and Science
ISBN: 0521811368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521811361
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Описание: An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply `telling stories about the world`. Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Register, rhetoric and imagery are manipulative, and irony emerges as the natural mode of our modern fragmented culture.

Автор: Mccracken, David
Название: Chuck palahniuk, parodist
ISBN: 0786479299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786479290
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Описание: Chuck Palahniuk, America's premier transgressive novelist, enjoys a tremendous readership. Yet he has not necessarily been embraced by critics or academics. His prose is considered vulgar by some but his body of work addresses a core motivation of 21st-century life: individual self-empowerment. Palahniuk writes about what it means to be on the outside looking in, revising familiar narratives for a contemporary audience to get at the heart of the human condition-everyone wants a chance to win their fair share, no matter the cost.In Haunted, Snuff, Pygmy, Tell-All, Damned and Invisible Monsters Remix, he confronts marginalization and disenfranchisement through parodies of various works-The Inferno, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, The Elephant Man-as well as Hollywood history, 1970s karate films and the porn industry. This comprehensive study of six novels refutes criticism that Palahniuk's goals are to shock and sensationalize.

Автор: Prickett
Название: Narrative, Religion and Science
ISBN: 0521009839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521009836
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Описание: An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply `telling stories about the world`. Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Register, rhetoric and imagery are manipulative, and irony emerges as the natural mode of our modern fragmented culture.

Автор: Cherlin Michael
Название: Varieties of Musical Irony: From Mozart to Mahler
ISBN: 1316506517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316506516
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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: Andrew Eastham
Название: Aesthetic Afterlives: Irony, Literary Modernity and the Ends of Beauty
ISBN: 1472512103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472512109
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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: Diane Wolfe Levy
Название: Techniques of Irony in Anatole France: Essay on Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue
ISBN: 0807892017 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807892015
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Описание: Reveals the complex irony in France`s last volume of short stories, Les sept femme de la Barbe-Bleue. Diane Wolfe Levy shows how France imbues his narration with paradoxical elements, contrasts full of irony, and complex oppositions. She also reveals the way irony is directed to both the narrator and the fictional characters.

Автор: Marvin Mudrick
Название: Jane Austen: Irony as Defense and Discovery
ISBN: 1614720703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614720706
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Описание: In this thoughtful appraisal of the novels and writings of Jane Austen, Mr. Mudrick shows her to be a writer of acute and irreverent sensibilities who, despite the constricted circumstances of her life, managed to create in her novels an enduring microcosm of the larger world. With deep insight into the creative mind and its artistic motives, Mr. Mudrick examines all of her writings as aspects of a developing personal irony, an irony that later became the vital principle of her art. It was her ironic detachment, he maintains, that enabled her to expose and dissect, in novels that are masterpieces of comic wit and brilliant satire, the follies and delusions of eighteenth-century English society.

Автор: D. C. Muecke
Название: Irony and the Ironic
ISBN: 1138229709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138229709
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First published in 1970 and revised in 1982, this work provides a critical overview of the concept of irony in literary criticism. After establishing the relationship of the ironical and the non-ironical, it summarises the history of the concept of irony, before isolating and discussing its basic aspects and the variable features that determine its nature, effect and quality.

Автор: William Zwiebel Theodor Fontane &
Название: Stechlin
ISBN: 1571135731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781571135735
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one of Germany`s most significant novelists.

Автор: Brian Tucker
Название: Theodor Fontane: Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age
ISBN: 1501368354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501368356
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Описание: What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontane's works, this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light, the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval.

Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability, falsehood, and indifference to truth, it is now easier to perceive in Fontane's novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane, irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning, a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of language's credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer, Tucker's analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom.

Revisiting Fontane's novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition.