The Meaning of Irony: A Psychoanalytic Investigation

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State University of New York Press, 1994 M07 1 - 177 páginas
Genuinely interdisciplinary in approach, The Meaning of Irony brings together literary analysis and, from psychoanalysis, both theory and case studies. Its investigation ranges from everyday examples of verbal irony—conscious and unconscious—to the complex irony of literature.

This book provides the first full account of verbal irony from a psychoanalytic point of view. Stringfellow shows how the rhetorical tradition, by viewing the literal level of irony as something the speaker doesn't really mean, flattens out the rich ambiguities of irony and misses the unconscious meanings that are hidden behind ironic statement. He argues that only psychoanalysis can recover these unconscious meanings and reveal the origins of irony.

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Fantasy and Irony in Gullivers Travels
41
Kafkas Trial and the Retreat from Irony
89
Swift Kafka and the Origins of Irony
133
Notes
153
Index
169
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Frank Stringfellow, Jr. is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami, Coral Gables.

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