num_pages: 277
description: This critical study makes an important contribution to the concept of literary irony by offering a grid for analyzing its various applications. It relates irony with the issues of representation, genre, and artistic modernity. In addition, Professor Yaari provides a long-overdue reappraisal of Andre Gide's 'Paludes' as the confluence of these manifestations of irony. This work provides a taxonomy as well as a detailed explanation of irony as a literary device. It posits two main types of poetic and paradoxal as the nexus of this process. The concluding chapter demonstrates the various uses of irony in 'Paludes' and makes the argument that 'Paludes' is the first example of modern ironic narrative in Western literature.
language: English
title: Ironie paradoxale et ironie poetique: Vers une theorie de l'ironie moderne sur les traces de Gide dans Paludes
titlecomplete: Ironie paradoxale et ironie poetique: Vers une theorie de l'ironie moderne sur les traces de Gide dans Paludes (French version)
publisher: Summa Pubns