The crazy fabric
Subtitle: essays in irony
By: by A. E. Dyson.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Plainview, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Satire, English -- History and criticism.; Irony in literature.
Table of contents: title: Swift: the metamorphosis of irony.; title: Fielding: satiric and comic irony.; title: Sterne: the novelist as jester.; title: Gibbon: dismissive irony.; title: Peacock: the wand of enchantment.; title: Thackeray: an irony against heroes.; title: Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn and the whole truth.; title: Samuel Butler: the honest sceptic.; title: Oscar Wilde: irony of a socialist aesthete.; title: Lytton Strachey: the technique of debunking.; title: Aldous Huxley: and the two nothings.; title: Evelyn Waugh: and the mysteriously disappearing hero.; title: Orwell: irony as prophecy.; title: Bibliography (p. 225-227)