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020			_a9780823255467 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aPS228 _b.P655 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aStratton, Matthew. _e1
245	1	0	_aThe Politics of Irony in American Modernism.
260			_aOxford : _bFordham University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (477 pages)
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520	0		_aThis 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.
505	0	0	_aTitle 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.
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aIrony in literature.
650		0	_aSatire _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aPolitics in literature.
650		0	_aPolitics and literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPolitics and culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aModernism (Literature) _zUnited States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell