A Rhetoric of Irony - Wayne C. Booth
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Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies—and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the words say" and reconstructing "what the author means"? In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls "stable irony," irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities—ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the "infinite absolute negativities" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period. Professor Booth is always ironically a...
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1974 Uitgever: University of Chicago Press 310 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0226065537 ISBN-13: 9780226065533Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Paperback, 8vo. [Auteur: Booth, Wayne C.] [Pagina's: 292] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: University of Chicago Press] [Jaar: 1975] [Titel: A Rhetoric of Irony]
