LEADER 04246nam 2200841 a 450 001 9910462911903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-5547-6 010 $a0-8232-6108-5 010 $a0-8232-5548-4 010 $a0-8232-5546-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823255474 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418092 035 $a(EBL)3239843 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000981261 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11515081 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000981261 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10972789 035 $a(PQKB)10602798 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292593 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239843 035 $a(OCoLC)859159685 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27580 035 $a(DE-B1597)555006 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823255474 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1426707 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239843 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10747398 035 $a(OCoLC)1178768834 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1426707 035 $a(OCoLC)861538530 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418092 100 $a20130726d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe politics of irony in American modernism$b[electronic resource] /$fMatthew Stratton 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5545-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $a"This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century saw "irony'" emerge as a term to describe intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal, Stratton shows how the term circulated widely in literary and popular culture to describe politically engaged forms of writing. It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive definitions of "irony" inductively, showing how writers employed it as a keyword both before and in opposition to the institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many others"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIrony in literature 606 $aSatire$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics in literature 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitics and culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIrony in literature. 615 0$aSatire$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics in literature. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and culture$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a810.9/18 700 $aStratton$b Matthew$01037337 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462911903321 996 $aThe politics of irony in American modernism$92458250 997 $aUNINA