Irony on Occasion by Kevin Newmark

Irony on Occasion by Kevin Newmark

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Zusammenfassung

This book examines how the romantic and post-romantic concept of irony provides the means for an uneasy articulation between philosophical thought and literary language. It considers the role played by ironic disruptions in writings by Friedrich Schlegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and J.M. Coetzee.

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Irony on Occasion by Kevin Newmark

This book examines how the romantic and post-romantic concept of irony provides the means for an uneasy articulation between philosophical thought and literary language. It considers the role played by ironic disruptions in writings by Friedrich Schlegel, Sren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, and J.M. Coetzee.
"Timely, provocative, carefully reasoned and argued, and unique in its scope" -- -Elizabeth Rottenberg DePaul University "Irony on Occasion is perhaps the best book on irony written since Kierkegaard's The Concept of Irony in the early nineteenth century." -- -J. Hillis Miller University of California, Irvine
Kevin Newmark teaches literature and literary theory at Boston College. He is the author of Beyond Symbolism: Textual History and the Future of Reading.
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ISBN 13 9780823240135
ISBN 10 0823240134
Titel Irony on Occasion
Autor Kevin Newmark
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Fordham University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2012-05-01
Seitenanzahl 380
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