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Author:   Linda Hutcheon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415054539

ISBN 10:   0415054532
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   17 November 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Illustrations Introduction: The `Scene' of Irony Acknowledgements 1. Risky Business: The `Transideological' Politics of Irony 2. The Cutting Edge 3. Modelling Meaning: The Semantics of Irony 4. discursive Communities: How Irony `Happens' 5. Intention and Interpretation: Irony and the Eye of the Beholder 6. Frame-ups and their marks: The Recognition or Attribution of Irony 7. The End(s) of Irony: The Politics fo Appropriateness Bibliography

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This fascinating, learned, and in all respects curiously edifying study leaves us with the open and disturbingly postmodern question: Is there a safe 'age of irony?'. - World Literature Today Elegantly Written, exceptionally informative and original, Irony's Edge is arguably the most important study of irony to date. . .

This fascinating, learned, and in all respects curiously edifying study leaves us with the open and disturbingly postmodern question: Is there a safe 'age of irony?'. <br>- World Literature Today Elegantly Written, exceptionally informative and original, Irony's Edge is arguably the most important study of irony to date. . . <br>

This fascinating, learned, and in all respects curiously edifying study leaves us with the open and disturbingly postmodern question: Is there a safe 'age of irony?'. - World Literature Today Elegantly Written, exceptionally informative and original, Irony's Edge is arguably the most important study of irony to date. . .

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Arthur F. Kinney

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