Irony on occasion
Subtitle: from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man
By: Kevin Newmark
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823240128; 9780823240135
Subjects: Criticism; Philosophy; Literature; Theory; Irony in literature; Irony; History and criticism; Romanticism; Modern Literature; Philosophy in literature; Deconstruction
Other titles: Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : irony on occasion; title: Romantic irony; title: Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony; title: Taking Kierkegaard apart : on the concept of irony; title: Modernity interrupted : Kierkegaard's Antigone; title: Reading Kierkegaard : to keep intact the secret; title: Fear and trembling : "Who is able to understand Abraham?"; title: Post-romantic irony; title: Signs of the times : Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history; title: Death in Venice : irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state; title: Terrible flowers : Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric; title: The irony of tomorrow; title: On parole : legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan; title: "What is happening today in deconstruction"; title: Bewildering : Paul de Man, poetry, politics; title: Coda : dark freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.