Author: Garnett Gladwin SedgewickPublisher:
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Of irony : especially in drama
Author: Garnett Gladwin SedgewickPublisher:
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Of Irony
Author: G.G. SedgewickPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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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 -- through Socrates, with his "urbane pretence"; through Bacon, Schlegel, and Tieck; through Bishop Thirlwall, whose essay on the irony of Sophocles was a landmark in the history of English dramatic criticism; and through R.G. Moulton's books on drama. Professor Sedgewick examines closely the notion of irony in drama, and skillfully analyses that delight in contrast of appearance and reality, in the combination of superior knowledge and detached sympathy, which the spectator finds in contemplating the performance of the whole or individual parts of a play. This analysis is accompanied by masterly expositions of impressive scenes from Shakespeare and Ibsen, but especially from the Greek tragedians. The author concludes with a detailed application of his suggestions to Othello. He believes that a realization of how Shakespeare has saturated the play from the beginning with irony used as a means of dramatic preparation will answer the absurdities of Rymer and show that it is not necessary to suppose a convention called The Calumniator Credited in order to accept the temptation scene.
Of Irony
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
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Of Irony, Especially in Drama. (Second Edition.) [The Alexander Lectures for 1934-35.].
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Author: Garnett Gladwin SEDGEWICKPublisher:
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Of Irony, Especially in Drama
Author: Garnett Gladwin SedgewickPublisher:
ISBN: 9781553800040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Ronsdale Press is pleased to announce a new edition of this landmark book on irony, first published in 1935 by the University of Toronto Press, and frequently reprinted. Professor Sedgewick begins his discussion by recognizing that irony is a way of speaking with which we are all familiar, a figure of speech used in daily conversation. But there are other ironies: those of allegory, of understatement, of detachment, of fate, and especially the irony used in drama.Sedgewick explores how the various meanings of irony have developed - through Socrates, with his "urbane pretence," through Bacon, through the romantic irony of Schlegel and Tieck, through Bishop Thirlwall, whose essay on the irony of Socrates was pivotal in the history of English dramatic criticism.In turning to irony as employed in drama, Sedgewick begins with the ancient classics, his discussion informed by his own familiarity with the original Greek and Latin languages. He then moves on to Renaissance plays, analyzing the audience's pleasure in perceiving the contrast of appearance and reality by means of their superior knowledge and detached sympathy. This analysis is accompanied by masterly expositions of impressive scenes from Shakespeare and Ibsen and concludes with a detailed application of his suggestions to Othello, demonstrating how the spectators see "Appearance and Reality as one whole and yet in conflict."
The Critical Mythology of Irony
Author: Joseph A. DanePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820338087
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
An ambitious theoretical work that ranges from the age of Socrates to the late twentieth century, this book traces the development of the concepts of irony within the history of Western literary criticism. Its purpose is not to promote a universal definition of irony, whether traditional or revisionist, but to examine how such definitions were created in critical history and what their use and invocation imply. Joseph A. Dane argues that the diverse, supposed forms of irony--Socratic, rhetorical, romantic, dramatic, to name a few--are not so much literary elements embedded in texts, awaiting discovery by critics, as they are notions used by critics of different eras and persuasions to manipulate those texts in various, often self-serving ways. The history of irony, Dane suggests, runs parallel to the history of criticism, and the changing definitions of irony reflect the changing ways in which readers and critics have defined their own roles in relation to literature. Probing and provocative, The Critical Mythology of Irony will appeal to a broad spectrum of critics and scholars, particularly those concerned with the historical basis of critical language and its political and educational implications.
A Rhetoric of Irony
Author: Wayne C. BoothPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226065537
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
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 aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he explores—with the help of Plato—the wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony.
The Compass of Irony
Author: D. C. MueckePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000291286
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
First published in 1969, The Compass of Irony is a detailed study of the nature, qualities, classifications, and significance of irony. Divided into two parts, the book offers first a general account of the formal qualities of irony and a classification of the more familiar kinds. It then explores newer forms of irony, its functions, topics, and cultural significance. A wide variety of examples are drawn from a range of different authors, such as Musil, Diderot, Schlegel, and Thomas Mann. The final chapter considers the detachment and seeming superiority of the ironist and discusses what this means for the morality of irony. The Compass of Irony will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of irony as both a literary and a cultural phenomenon.
Irony and the Ironic
Author: D. C. MueckePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315388324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
First published in 1970 and revised in 1982, this work provides a critical overview of the concept of irony in literary criticism. After establishing the relationship of the ironical and the non-ironical, it summarises the history of the concept of irony, before isolating and discussing its basic aspects and the variable features that determine its nature, effect and quality. The book will be a useful resource for those studying irony and English Literature.
Perspectives of Irony on Medieval French Literature
Author: Vladimir R. RossmanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110821117
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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