TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stratton,Matthew
TI  - The Politics of Irony in American Modernism
SN  - 9780823255467
AV  - PS228 .P655 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Irony in literature
KW  - Satire
KW  - Politics in literature
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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