The Politics of Irony in American Modernism / Matthew Stratton.
2013
PS228.I74 S87 2014eb
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Title
The Politics of Irony in American Modernism / Matthew Stratton.
Author
Stratton, Matthew, author.
ISBN
9780823255474
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource (304 p.)
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10.1515/9780823255474 doi
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PS228.I74 S87 2014eb
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810.9/18
Summary
Shortlisted for the 2015 Modernist Studies Association Book PrizeThis 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.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Irony and How It Got That Way: An Introduction
1. The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s
2. Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s
3. The Focus of Satire: Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos
4. Visible Decisions: Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison
Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Irony and How It Got That Way: An Introduction
1. The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s
2. Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s
3. The Focus of Satire: Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos
4. Visible Decisions: Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison
Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index