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Irony on occasion : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Newmark, Kevin, 1951-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Irony in literature. Irony. Literature > Philosophy. Philosophy in literature. Romanticism. Deconstruction. Criticism. Literature, Modern > History and criticism > Theory, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : irony on occasion
Romantic irony
Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony
Taking Kierkegaard apart : on the concept of irony
Modernity interrupted : Kierkegaard's Antigone
Reading Kierkegaard : to keep intact the secret
Fear and trembling : "Who is able to understand Abraham?"
Post-romantic irony
Signs of the times : Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history
Death in Venice : irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state
Terrible flowers : Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric
The irony of tomorrow
On parole : legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan
"What is happening today in deconstruction"
Bewildering : Paul de Man, poetry, politics
Coda : dark freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.