Rhetoric And Irony

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226065533

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A Rhetoric of Irony by Wayne C. Booth Pdf

Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies—and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the words say" and reconstructing "what the author means"? In the first and longer part of his work, Booth deals with the workings of what he calls "stable irony," irony with a clear rhetorical intent. He then turns to intended instabilities—ironies that resist interpretation and finally lead to the "infinite absolute negativities" that have obsessed criticism since the Romantic period. Professor Booth is always ironically aware that no one can fathom the unfathomable. But by looking closely at unstable ironists like Samuel Becket, he shows that at least some of our commonplaces about meaninglessness require revision. Finally, he explores—with the help of Plato—the wry paradoxes that threaten any uncompromising assertion that all assertion can be undermined by the spirit of irony.

Author : C. Jan Swearingen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 9780195063622

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Rhetoric and Irony by C. Jan Swearingen Pdf

This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics up to the time of Augustine, focusing on Western concepts of rhetoric as dissembling and of language as deceptive that Swearingen argues have received curiously prominent emphasis in Western aesthetics and language theory. Swearingen reverses the traditional focus on rhetoric as an oral agonistic genre and examines it instead as a paradigm for literate discourse. She proposes that rhetoric and literacy have in the West disseminated the interrelated notions that through learning rhetoric individuals can learn to manipulate language and others; that language is an unreliable, manipulable, and contingent vehicle of thought, meaning, and communication; and that literature is a body of pretty lies and beguiling fictions. In a bold concluding chapter Swearingen aligns her thesis concerning early Western literacy and rhetoric with contemporary critical and rhetorical theory; with feminist studies in language, psychology, and culture; and with studies of literacy in multi- and cross-cultural settings.

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:82248842

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A Rhetoric of irony by Wayne C. Booth Pdf

Author : C. Jan Swearingen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362503

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Rhetoric and Irony by C. Jan Swearingen Pdf

This pathbreaking study integrates the histories of rhetoric, literacy, and literary aesthetics up to the time of Augustine, focusing on Western concepts of rhetoric as dissembling and of language as deceptive that Swearingen argues have received curiously prominent emphasis in Western aesthetics and language theory. Swearingen reverses the traditional focus on rhetoric as an oral agonistic genre and examines it instead as a paradigm for literate discourse. She proposes that rhetoric and literacy have in the West disseminated the interrelated notions that through learning rhetoric individuals can learn to manipulate language and others; that language is an unreliable, manipulable, and contingent vehicle of thought, meaning, and communication; and that literature is a body of pretty lies and beguiling fictions. In a bold concluding chapter Swearingen aligns her thesis concerning early Western literacy and rhetoric with contemporary critical and rhetorical theory; with feminist studies in language, psychology, and culture; and with studies of literacy in multi- and cross-cultural settings.

Author : Michael Dorland,Maurice René Charland
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802081193

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Law, Rhetoric and Irony in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture by Michael Dorland,Maurice René Charland Pdf

In Rhetoric, Irony, and Law in the Formation of Canadian Civil Culture, Michael Dorland and Maurice Charland examine how, over the roughly 400-year period since the encounter of First Peoples with Europeans in North America, rhetorical or discursive fields took form in politics and constitution-making, in the formation of a public sphere, and in education and language. The study looks at how these fields changed over time within the French regime, the British regime, and in Canada since 1867, and how they converged through trial and error into a Canadian civil culture. The authors establish a triangulation of fields of discourse formed by law (as a technical discourse system), rhetoric (as a public discourse system), and irony (as a means of accessing the public realm as the key pillars upon which a civil culture in Canada took form) in order to scrutinize the process of creating a civil culture. By presenting case studies ranging from the legal implications of the transition from French to English law to the continued importance of the Louis Riel case and trial, the authors provide detailed analyses of how communication practices form a common institutional culture. As scholars of communication and rhetoric, Dorland and Charland have written a challenging examination of the history of Canadian governance and the central role played by legal and other discourses in the formation of civil culture.

Author : Marta Dynel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501507922

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Irony, Deception and Humour by Marta Dynel Pdf

This book offers fresh perspectives on untruthfulness entailed in various forms of irony, deception and humour, which have so far constituted independent foci of linguistic and philosophical investigation. These three distinct (albeit sometimes co-occurring) notions are brought together within a neo-Gricean framework and consistently discussed as representing overt or covert untruthfulness. The postulates that represent the interface between language philosophy and pragmatics are illustrated with scripted interactions culled from the series House, which help appreciate the complexities of the three concepts at hand. Apart from affording new insights into the nature of irony, deception and humour, this book critically examines previous literature on these notions, as well as relevant aspects of Grice's philosophy of language. Giving a state-of-the-art picture of untruthfulness, this publication will be of interest to both experienced and inexperienced researchers studying Grice’s philosophy, irony, deception and/or humour.

Author : Roger Kreuz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262538268

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Irony and Sarcasm by Roger Kreuz Pdf

A biography of two troublesome words. Isn't it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, psycholinguist Roger Kreuz offers an enlightening and concise overview of the life and times of these two terms, mapping their evolution from Greek philosophy and Roman rhetoric to modern literary criticism to emojis. Kreuz describes eight different ways that irony has been used through the centuries, proceeding from Socratic to dramatic to cosmic irony. He explains that verbal irony—irony as it is traditionally understood—refers to statements that mean something different (frequently the opposite) of what is literally intended, and defines sarcasm as a type of verbal irony. Kreuz outlines the prerequisites for irony and sarcasm (one of which is a shared frame of reference); clarifies what irony is not (coincidence, paradox, satire) and what it can be (among other things, a socially acceptable way to express hostility); recounts ways that people can signal their ironic intentions; and considers the difficulties of online irony. Finally, he wonders if, because irony refers to so many different phenomena, people may gradually stop using the word, with sarcasm taking over its verbal duties.

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226065595

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The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne C. Booth Pdf

The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form works, how authors make novels accessible, and how readers recreate texts, and its concepts and terms—such as "the implied author," "the postulated reader," and "the unreliable narrator"—have become part of the standard critical lexicon. For this new edition, Wayne C. Booth has written an extensive Afterword in which he clarifies misunderstandings, corrects what he now views as errors, and sets forth his own recent thinking about the rhetoric of fiction. The other new feature is a Supplementary Bibliography, prepared by James Phelan in consultation with the author, which lists the important critical works of the past twenty years—two decades that Booth describes as "the richest in the history of the subject."

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226065809

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Now Don't Try to Reason with Me by Wayne C. Booth Pdf

In this entertaining collection of essays, Wayne Booth looks for the much-maligned “middle ground” for reason—a rhetoric that can unite truths of the heart with truths of the head and allow us all to discover shared convictions in mutual inquiry. First delivered as lectures in the 1960s, when Booth was a professor at Earlham College and the University of Chicago, Now Don’t Try to Reason with Me still resounds with anyone struggling for consensus in a world of us versus them. “Professor Booth’s earnestness is graced by wit, irony, and generous humor.”—Louis Coxe, New Republic

Author : Carolyn J. Sharp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253003447

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Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible by Carolyn J. Sharp Pdf

Was God being ironic in commanding Eve not to eat fruit from the tree of wisdom? Carolyn J. Sharp suggests that many stories in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically intended. Deftly interweaving literary theory and exegesis, Sharp illumines the power of the unspoken in a wide variety of texts from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings. She argues that reading with irony in mind creates a charged and open rhetorical space in the texts that allows character, narration, and authorial voice to develop in unexpected ways. Main themes explored here include the ironizing of foreign rulers, the prostitute as icon of the ironic gaze, indeterminacy and dramatic irony in prophetic performance, and irony in ancient Israel's wisdom traditions. Sharp devotes special attention to how irony destabilizes dominant ways in which the Bible is read today, especially when it touches on questions of conflict, gender, and the Other.

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400846924

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Kierkegaard's Writings, II, Volume 2 by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F.W.J. Schelling, the book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. Part One concentrates on Socrates, the master ironist, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. Part Two is a more synoptic discussion of the concept of irony in Kierkegaard's categories, with examples from other philosophers and with particular attention given to A. W. Schlegel's novel Lucinde as an epitome of romantic irony. The Concept of Irony and the Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures belong to the momentous year 1841, which included not only the completion of Kierkegaard's university work and his sojourn in Berlin, but also the end of his engagement to Regine Olsen and the initial writing of Either/Or.

Author : Tarez Samra Graban
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809334186

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Women's Irony by Tarez Samra Graban Pdf

In Women's Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories, author Tarez Samra Graban synthesizes three decades of scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical model for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying, or intention. Graban challenges critical methods in rhetoric, asking scholars in rhetoric and its related disciplines to rethink how they produce historical knowledge and use archives to recover women's performances in political situations.

Author : Theresa Enos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135816063

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Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition by Theresa Enos Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773575431

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Quest of the Folk by Ian McKay Pdf

Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.

Author : Jerry Camery-Hoggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521020611

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Irony in Mark's Gospel by Jerry Camery-Hoggatt Pdf

An important contribution to our understanding of Marcan irony, and combines a literary-critical approach with insights gained from the sociology of knowledge.