03442nam 2200745Ia 450 991081074460332120200520144314.00-8232-4016-90-8232-4939-5(CKB)3240000000065569(EBL)3239606(OCoLC)923763742(SSID)ssj0000612139(PQKBManifestationID)11368027(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612139(PQKBWorkID)10667732(PQKB)10535691(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092893(MiAaPQ)EBC3239606(OCoLC)830023269(MdBmJHUP)muse16201(Au-PeEL)EBL3239606(CaPaEBR)ebr10539022(EXLCZ)99324000000006556920110927d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIrony on occasion from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man /Kevin Newmark1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20121 online resource (382 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-4012-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de ManCriticismDeconstructionIrony in literatureIronyLiteraturePhilosophyLiterature, ModernHistory and criticismTheory, etcPhilosophy in literatureRomanticismCriticism.Deconstruction.Irony in literature.Irony.LiteraturePhilosophy.Literature, ModernHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Philosophy in literature.Romanticism.809/.918Newmark Kevin1951-1621899MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810744603321Irony on occasion3955431UNINA