Synthesizes three decades of scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical model for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying, or intention. Graban challenges critical methods in rhetoric, asking scholars in rhet…
David Hume, one of the most influential philosophers to have written in the English language, is widely known as a skeptic and an empiricist. This book studies Hume's philosophy of religion, a topic central to his whole philosophical project.
The use of irony in music is just beginning to be defined and critiqued, irony in popular music being especially worthy of study because it is pervasive, even fundamental to the music, the business of making music and the politics of messaging. Contributors to this collection ad…
Kierkegaard is not only a thinker writing about and practising irony. He is also conscious of the irony of the very notion of thinking. Taking his departure in Kierkegaard's (), Bøggild shows how style is the constituting element of content in Kierkegaard's writings and clarifie…
Includes select proceedings from the annual Heart's Day Conference, sponsored by the Department of English at Howard University. This collection also reveals how the lens of humor, irony, and satire as a way of reading texts is especially useful in highlighting the complexity of…
"In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an "irony-free zone." Jonathan Lear in his 2006 book Radical Hope looked into America's heart to ask how might we dispose ourselve…
This book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry. After providing a historical summary of the term, the book discusses the various defining aspects of the grotesque and its relationship to other …