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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463564903321

Autore

Newmark Kevin <1951->

Titolo

Irony on occasion [[electronic resource] ] : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man / / Kevin Newmark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4016-9

0-8232-4939-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Disciplina

809/.918

Soggetti

Criticism

Deconstruction

Irony in literature

Irony

Literature - Philosophy

Literature, Modern - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Philosophy in literature

Romanticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

What is it about irony--as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity--that makes it an



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.