The Force Of Irony

Author : Gabriel Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781000324204

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The Force of Irony by Gabriel Torres Pdf

Winner of the 'Casa Chata Award' for the Best Book of 1994 (Spanish edition)In charting the paradoxical effects of power and knowledge on the everyday life of subordinate people, this book offers a major rethinking of domination and the agricultural labor process. Challenging the belief that ethnography is theoretically weak, the author provides a fresh perspective on rural workers' responses to the development of transnational production systems and the transformations of agrarian structures brought about by the complex interactions of global and local forces. In questioning ingrained assumptions about worker consciousness, the author exposes the naivete of past approaches and the role of power and hegemony in the micro-politics of human relations. This book is obligatory reading for anyone interested in current debates about "resistance," development, and the future of rural societies.

Author : D. C. Muecke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000291285

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The Compass of Irony by D. C. Muecke Pdf

First published in 1969, The Compass of Irony is a detailed study of the nature, qualities, classifications, and significance of irony. Divided into two parts, the book offers first a general account of the formal qualities of irony and a classification of the more familiar kinds. It then explores newer forms of irony, its functions, topics, and cultural significance. A wide variety of examples are drawn from a range of different authors, such as Musil, Diderot, Schlegel, and Thomas Mann. The final chapter considers the detachment and seeming superiority of the ironist and discusses what this means for the morality of irony. The Compass of Irony will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of irony as both a literary and a cultural phenomenon.

Author : Claire Colebrook
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415251338

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Author : Marta Dynel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : James Fernandez,Mary Taylor Huber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226244235

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Irony in Action by James Fernandez,Mary Taylor Huber Pdf

Irony today extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. This idea of irony as an integral force in social life is at the center of this provocative book. The result of a meeting where anthropologists were invited to explore the politics of irony and the moral responsibilities that accompany its recognition, this book is one of the first to lend an anthropological perspective to this contemporary phenomenon. The first group of essays explores the limits to irony's liberating qualities from the constrained use of irony in congressional hearings to its reactive presence amid widening disparities of wealth despite decades of world development. The second section presents irony's more positive dimensions through an array of examples such as the use of irony by Chinese writers and Irish humorists. Framed by the editors' theoretical introduction to the issues posed by irony and responses to the essays by two literary scholars, Irony in Action is a timely contribution in the contemporary reinvention of anthropology.

Author : Mark D. Nanos
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451413755

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The Irony of Galatians by Mark D. Nanos Pdf

Intra-Jewish conflict in Paul's communities After taking on traditional interpretations of Romans in (The Mystery of Romans, Nanos now turns his attention to the Letter to the Galatians. A Primary voice in reclaiming Paul in his Jewish context. Nanos challenges the previously dominant views of Paul as rejecting his Jewish heritage and the Law. Where Paul's rhetoric has been interpreted to be its most anti-Jewish, Nanos instead demonstrates the implications of an intra-Jewish reading. He explores the issues of purity, insiders/outsiders; the charactor of "the gospel"; the relationship between groups of Christ-followers in Jerusalem, Antioch, and Galatia; and evil-eye accusations.

Author : Lillian R. Klein
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850750994

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The Triumph of Irony in the Book of Judges by Lillian R. Klein Pdf

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Author : Michael Cherlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107141292

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Varieties of Musical Irony by Michael Cherlin Pdf

Sophisticated and engaging, this volume explores and compares musical irony in the works of major composers, from Mozart to Mahler.

Author : Zelma Catalan
Publisher : Zelma Catalan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Irony in literature
ISBN : 9540728231

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The Politics of Irony in Thackeray's Mature Fiction by Zelma Catalan Pdf

Author : Claire Colebrook
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0803215177

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Irony in the Work of Philosophy by Claire Colebrook Pdf

In an era that proclaims itself postironic, the question and problem of irony are of more interest than ever. In this compelling inquiry, Claire Colebrook first takes up all the majorøfigures in post-Cartesian philosophy on the subject of irony: Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. She similarly examines the modern thinkers in the Anglo-Saxon tradition: Rorty, Searle, and de Man. She then engages in an analysis of the Continental canon and the ironic dimension that marks contemporary philosophy. Beyond the question of irony, Colebrook treats the presence of irony in the history of philosophy and those points of overlap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and philosophy. Ultimately, she extends what has belonged primarily to the domain of literature into a world of concepts.

Author : Terence J. Martin
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813228099

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Truth and Irony by Terence J. Martin Pdf

Tapping into selected works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, this book offers a series of philosophical meditations designed to retrieve and deploy a distinctively Erasmian manner of thinking - one that is capacious in its perception, agile in its judgments, and unsettling in its irony. In purpose, it takes a philosophical route, addressing perennial questions of self-knowledge - what we can know and how best to communicate what we take to be true, what we ought to do or how we should live, and what we might hope for or what would offer us fulfilment. In method, however, this work taps into the various strategies of irony at play in the works of Erasmus, looking for guidance in handling these age-old questions. What readers will find in Erasmus is a knack for playfully reversing appearances and realities, a penchant for pushing disturbing questions relentlessly to the limit, and a skill for juxtaposing oddly matched opposites. Again and again, Erasmus presses readers to rethink these fundamental questions with dexterity and nuance, ever ready to appreciate the surprising and unsettling upshot of ironic insight.

Author : Erica Weitzman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810129832

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Irony's Antics by Erica Weitzman Pdf

Irony's Antics marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic in German letters. At the book's heart is the relationship between the comic and irony. Weitzman argues that in the early twentieth century, irony, a key figure for the German Romantics, reemerged from its relegation to "nonsense" in a way that both rethought Romantic irony and dramatically extended its reach.

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004536333

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Irony in the Bible by Anonim Pdf

It is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.

Author : Dr. John F. Kane
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498239134

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Building the Human City by Dr. John F. Kane Pdf

Building the Human City is a first overview of the award-winning yet quite diverse works of Jesuit philosopher William F. Lynch. Writing from the 1950s to the mid-1980s, Lynch was among the first to warn against the fierce polarizations prevalent in our culture wars and political life. He called for a transformation of artistic and intellectual sensibilities and imaginations through the healing discernments and critical ironies of an Ignatian (and Socratic) spirituality. Yet the breadth of his concerns (from cinema and literature to mental health and hope to secularization and faith) as well as the depth of his thought (philosophical as much as theological) led to little initial awareness of the overall vision uniting his writings. This book, while exploring that vision, also argues that the spirituality Lynch proposes is more needed today than when he first wrote.