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The Politics of Irony in American Modernism (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Irony in American Modernism (Hardcover)
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Shortlisted for the 2015 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize
This book shows how American literary culture in the first half of
the twentieth century saw "irony" emerge as a term to describe
intersections between aesthetic and political practices. Against
conventional associations of irony with political withdrawal,
Stratton shows how the term circulated widely in literary and
popular culture to describe politically engaged forms of writing.
It is a critical commonplace to acknowledge the difficulty of
defining irony before stipulating a particular definition as a
stable point of departure for literary, cultural, and political
analysis. This book, by contrast, is the first to derive
definitions of "irony" inductively, showing how writers employed it
as a keyword both before and in opposition to the
institutionalization of New Criticism. It focuses on writers who
not only composed ironic texts but talked about irony and satire to
situate their work politically: Randolph Bourne, Benjamin De
Casseres, Ellen Glasgow, John Dos Passos, Ralph Ellison, and many
others.
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