The politics of irony in American modernism [electronic resource] / Matthew Stratton.
2014
PS228.I74 S87 2014eb
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Title
The politics of irony in American modernism [electronic resource] / Matthew Stratton.
Author
Stratton, Matthew.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780823255450 hardcover
Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xi, 273 p. : ill.
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PS228.I74 S87 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/18
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.