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Autore |
Newmark Kevin <1951-> |
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Titolo |
Irony on occasion [[electronic resource] ] : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man / / Kevin Newmark |
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New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-8232-4016-9 |
0-8232-4939-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (382 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criticism |
Deconstruction |
Irony in literature |
Irony |
Literature - Philosophy |
Literature, Modern - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Philosophy in literature |
Romanticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : irony on occasion -- Romantic irony -- Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony -- Taking Kierkegaard apart : on the concept of irony -- Modernity interrupted : Kierkegaard's Antigone -- Reading Kierkegaard : to keep intact the secret -- Fear and trembling : "Who is able to understand Abraham?" -- Post-romantic irony -- Signs of the times : Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history -- Death in Venice : irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state -- Terrible flowers : Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric -- The irony of tomorrow -- On parole : legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan -- "What is happening today in deconstruction" -- Bewildering : Paul de Man, poetry, politics -- Coda : dark freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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What is it about irony--as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity--that makes it an |
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occasion for endless critical debate? This book responds to this question by focusing on several key moments in German Romanticism and its afterlife in twentieth-century French thought and writing. It includes chapters on Friedrich Schlegel, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man. |
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