The Meaning of Irony: A Psychoanalytic InvestigationState 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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... tion is clearly primary and the other ultimately derivable from the primary one . The speaker cannot have started out ( i.e. , entered into the rhetorical model ) with self - contradictory intentions . One obvious result of this kind of ...
... tion is clearly primary and the other ultimately derivable from the primary one . The speaker cannot have started out ( i.e. , entered into the rhetorical model ) with self - contradictory intentions . One obvious result of this kind of ...
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... tion , with the various distortions that such a rationalization is bound to entail . On the contrary , psychoanalysis insists that human phenomena are invariably the product of contradictory impulses and that careful analysis of the ...
... tion , with the various distortions that such a rationalization is bound to entail . On the contrary , psychoanalysis insists that human phenomena are invariably the product of contradictory impulses and that careful analysis of the ...
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... tion of the ' proper sense . " " 12 This point has more readily been made about metaphor than about irony because we are not par- ticularly troubled by the idea that a statement can mean two dif- ferent ( but not contradictory ) things ...
... tion of the ' proper sense . " " 12 This point has more readily been made about metaphor than about irony because we are not par- ticularly troubled by the idea that a statement can mean two dif- ferent ( but not contradictory ) things ...
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... tion is generally implicit rather than explicit ; in other words , it is not accompanied by any formal sign that the statement is being mentioned rather than used . According to their theory , the fol- lowing exchange from Pride and ...
... tion is generally implicit rather than explicit ; in other words , it is not accompanied by any formal sign that the statement is being mentioned rather than used . According to their theory , the fol- lowing exchange from Pride and ...
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... tion , since free indirect discourse involves precisely the mention of another person's words or thoughts . But again , the authors ignore a critical aspect of their example , that in free indirect discourse the author purposely ...
... tion , since free indirect discourse involves precisely the mention of another person's words or thoughts . But again , the authors ignore a critical aspect of their example , that in free indirect discourse the author purposely ...
Contenido
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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The Meaning of Irony: A Psychoanalytic Investigation Frank Stringfellow Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
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