Rhetoric of Irony

Name: Rhetoric of Irony
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ISBN: 9780226065533

ISBN-10: 0226065537

ISBN-13: 9780226065533

Edition: 1975 (Reprint)

Authors: Wayne C. Booth

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Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony," and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by analyzing how we manage to share quite specific ironies--and why we often fail when we try to do so. How does a reader or listener recognize the kind of statement which requires him to reject its "clear" and "obvious" meaning? And how does any reader know where to stop, once he has embarked on the hazardous and exhilarating path of rejecting "what the words say" and reconstructing "what the author means"? In the first and longer part of his work,…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1975
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1975
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Stable Irony



The Ways of Stable Irony


The Marks of Stable Irony


Stable Irony Compared with ""All Literature""


The Four Steps of Reconstruction


"" Ironic Readings as Knowledge Meaning and Significance


Stable Irony and Other Figures of Speech


Metaphor Allegory and Fable Puns


Stable Irony and Satire



Reconstructions and Judgments


Rival Metaphors


Advantages of ""Reconstruction""


Required Judgments


Some Pleasures and Pitfalls of Irony



Is It Ironic?


Clues to Irony



Straightforward Warnin