IIrony is a key feature of the pop literature around 2000 and of theoretically ambitious music journalism around 1980. But whereas the pop program of the 1980s still was integrated into emancipatory concepts of 'counterculture', this meaningful context has since then declined no…
Irony is a key feature of the pop literature around 2000 and of theoretically ambitious music journalism around 1980. But whereas the pop program of the 1980s still was integrated into emancipatory concepts of 'counterculture', this meaningful context has since then declined not…
This book marks a major intervention into the underexplored role of the comic in German letters. At the book's heart is the relationship between the comic and irony. Weitzman argues that in the early twentieth century, irony, a key figure for the German Romantics, reemerged from…
A biography of two troublesome words. Isn't it ironic Or is it Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I ). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge s…
by Kreuz, Roger J., M.I.T. Press
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A biography of two troublesome words. Isn't it ironic Or is it Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I ). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge s…
"This book provides a concise summary of the concepts "irony" and "sarcasm": what they mean, how they have been used over time, and how they differ from the related concepts like coincidence, paradox, satire, and parody. The use of these terms, from Greek philosophers to postmod…
A biography of two troublesome words. Isn't it ironic Or is it Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in our conversational lexicon. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge se…
"This book provides a concise summary of the concepts "irony" and "sarcasm": what they mean, how they have been used over time, and how they differ from the related concepts like coincidence, paradox, satire, and parody. The use of these terms, from Greek philosophers to postmod…
The first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikaku's fiction, David J. Gundry's lucid, compelling study examines the tension reflected in key works by Edo-period Japan's leading writer of "floating world" literature between the official societal hierarchy dictated by the …
by Seidel, Anna, Baßler, Moritz, Berlich, Sebastian, Grevenbrock, Holger, Scheerer, Katharina, Allerheiligen, Gesa, Bernhardt, Jana, Boch, Michael, Brinkmann, Lena M., Brössel, Stephan, Gödde, Niklas, Heger, Gesine, Kalvelage, Moritz, Lorenzen, Till, Mertens, Nuria, Ohnesorge, Philipp, Pabst, Philipp, Tayçimen, Sibel, Tebbe, Frederik, Thunig, Marco, Trebesch, Jannes, Ueberfeldt, Johannes
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Die Postmoderne ist zu Ende! Seit drei Dekaden hallt diese Diagnose durch den geisteswissenschaftlichen Diskursraum. Doch was kommt jetzt? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes schlagen kein neues Epochenkonzept vor, sondern widmen sich den Phänomenen Postironie, Pop III, Heimat und Po…
Die Postmoderne ist zu Ende! Seit drei Dekaden hallt diese Diagnose durch den geisteswissenschaftlichen Diskursraum. Doch was kommt jetzt? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes schlagen kein neues Epochenkonzept vor, sondern widmen sich den Phänomenen Postironie, Pop III, Heimat und Po…
Die Postmoderne ist zu Ende! Seit drei Dekaden hallt diese Diagnose durch den geisteswissenschaftlichen Diskursraum. Doch was kommt jetzt? Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes schlagen kein neues Epochenkonzept vor, sondern widmen sich den Phänomenen Postironie, Pop III, Heimat und Po…
"Humor as a topic of research has received a considerable amount of attention, but as a methodology has been severely neglected. If humor is a fundamental aspect of human experience and our understanding of what it is to be human, then to ignore the humorous as an analytical att…
Cool Characters tells the story of American political irony from World War II to the present: how irony came to seem politically subversive for American countercultural rebels; how mainstream culture allegedly co-opted countercultural irony; how irony became part of major critic…
