The Meaning of Irony

The Meaning of IronyGenuinely interdisciplinary in approach, The Meaning of Irony brings together literary analysis and, from psychoanalysis, both theory and case studies. Its investigation ranges from everyday examples of verbal irony conscious and unconscious to the complex irony of literature. This book provides the first full account of verbal irony from a psychoanalytic point of view. Stringfellow shows how the rhetorical tradition, by viewing the literal level of

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From The Great Dictator to Schindler's List

It shows how rights-based 1960s politics and the identity politics of the 1970s influenced the development of Conceptual art (with a capital 'C') into the diverse set of practices generally characterised as conceptualist (with a lower-case 'c')

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The research sought to evaluate short- and long-term effects of various different management systems

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attempting to harmonize the methods for environmental assessments of the dairy sector and reduce confusion in published results