Irony's edge : the theory and politics of irony /
The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of...
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Routledge,
1995
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Risky business : the "transideological" politics of irony
- 2. The cutting edge
- 3. Modeling meaning : the semantics of irony
- 4. Discursive communities : how irony "happens"
- 5. Intention and interpretation : irony and the eye of the beholder
- 6. Frame-ups and their marks : the recognition or attribution of irony
- 7. The end(s) of irony : the politics of appropriateness.
