TY - GEN N2 - 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. DO - 10.1515/9780823255474 DO - doi AB - 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. T1 - The Politics of Irony in American Modernism / AU - Stratton, Matthew, JF - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 JF - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 CN - PS228.I74 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1477611 KW - American literature KW - Irony in literature. KW - Literature and society KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Politics and culture KW - Politics and literature KW - Politics in literature. KW - Satire KW - American Studies. KW - Literary Studies. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - Aesthetics. KW - American literature. KW - culture. KW - irony. KW - modernism. KW - novel. KW - politics. SN - 9780823255474 TI - The Politics of Irony in American Modernism / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823255474 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823255474 ER -