The Politics of Irony in American Modernism.
- Oxford : Fordham University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (477 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Irony and How It Got That Way: An Introduction; 1. The Eye in Irony: New York, Nietzsche, and the 1910s; 2. Gendering Irony and Its History: Ellen Glasgow and the Lost 1920s; 3. The Focus of Satire: Public Opinions of Propaganda in the U.S.A. of John Dos Passos; 4. Visible Decisions: Irony, Law, and the Political Constitution of Ralph Ellison; Beyond Hope and Memory: A Conclusion; Notes; 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.
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American literature--History and criticism.--20th century Irony in literature. Satire--History and criticism. Politics in literature. Politics and literature--History--United States--20th century. Politics and culture--History--United States--20th century. Literature and society--History--United States--20th century. Modernism (Literature)--United States.