Of Irony : : Especially in Drama / / G.G. Sedgewick.
Of irony as a figure of speech we are commonly aware: it is an everyday conversational weapon. But there are other ironies, those of allegory, of understatement, of detachment, of fate; and especially there is irony in drama. Professor Sedgewick shows how the various meanings of irony have developed...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1948 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (144 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- CONTENTS
- I. The Meanings and History of IRONY
- II. IRONY in Drama
- III. IRONY as Drama,. tic Emphasis : The Clytemnestra Plays
- IV. IRONY as Dramatic Preparation : : Othello
- Notes
- Index of Names