Varieties of literary irony from Plato through the present. Topics include: verbal, dramatic, situational, and romantic irony. Focus will be on questions about what irony is and why writers use it. How does irony go astray? What kinds of topics seem to require irony? How does irony work? Writers include Chaucer, Swift, Thomas Mann, J.M. Coetzee and David Foster Wallace.
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ENGLISH 317A (section 1) Irony |
Blakey Vermeule | 2015-2016 Winter |
Wednesday 1:30pm - 4:20pm THORNT208 |
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