04447nam 2200925 a 450 991078753910332120230120074228.00-8232-5547-60-8232-6108-50-8232-5548-40-8232-5546-810.1515/9780823255474(CKB)2670000000418092(EBL)3239843(SSID)ssj0000981261(PQKBManifestationID)11515081(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981261(PQKBWorkID)10972789(PQKB)10602798(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292593(OCoLC)859159685(MdBmJHUP)muse27580(DE-B1597)555006(DE-B1597)9780823255474(Au-PeEL)EBL3239843(CaPaEBR)ebr10747398(OCoLC)1178768834(Au-PeEL)EBL1426707(OCoLC)861538530(MiAaPQ)EBC3239843(MiAaPQ)EBC1426707(EXLCZ)99267000000041809220130726d2014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThe politics of irony in American modernism[electronic resource] /Matthew Stratton1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20141 online resource (285 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-5545-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Irony and How It Got That Way -- Chapter 1: The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s -- Chapter 2: Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s -- Chapter 3: The Focus of Satire: Irony and Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos Page -- Chapter 4: Visible Decisions : Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison -- Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion -- Bibliography."This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw "irony'" emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal, Stratton shows how the term circulated widely in literary and popular culture to describe politically engaged forms of writing. It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive definitions of "irony" inductively, showing how writers employed it as a keyword both before and in opposition to the institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many others"--Provided by publisher.American literature20th centuryHistory and criticismIrony in literatureSatireHistory and criticismPolitics in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPolitics and cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryModernism (Literature)United StatesAesthetics.American literature.culture.irony.modernism.novel.politics.American literatureHistory and criticism.Irony in literature.SatireHistory and criticism.Politics in literature.Politics and literatureHistoryPolitics and cultureHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryModernism (Literature)810.9/18LIT004020POL000000bisacshStratton Matthew1550512MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910787539103321The politics of irony in American modernism3809376UNINA