The Politics of Irony in American Modernism / / Matthew Stratton.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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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