Irony

Paul Fussell has remarked that our understanding of modernity throughout the last century; “is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.” What this dissertation demonstrates is that World War I, while…

This literary-rhetorical study develops and applies a methodology for discerning irony in Hebrew Bible narrative to 1 Kgs 16:29–22:40 and then pursues implications of its findings for questions raised by source, redactional, and socio-historical investigations of this unit, King…

The main thesis of this study is that the translation of irony from English into Arabic in commentary texts in Australia is not amenable to traditional translation theories. The way Arabic and English speakers employ irony to express themselves reflects the linguistic and cultur…