Double Talking: Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Canadian Contemporary Art and LiteratureLinda Hutcheon ECW Press, 1992 - 220 pages In the mass media today, as well as in high art and academia, there seems to be what one recent magazine has called an irony epidemic. This collection of essays considers irony in its Canadian literary and artistic context, with titles such as “Who Says That Canadian Culture Is Ironic?” and “Ironies of Color in the Great White North: The Discursive Strategies of Some Hyphenated Canadians.” |
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... reader : he has an excuse When a reader comes across a poem on a page , to react , but when he learns the poem that has triggered his emotional reaction is prose in the guise of poetry , he finds himself unable to see the poem for the ...
... reader : he has an excuse When a reader comes across a poem on a page , to react , but when he learns the poem that has triggered his emotional reaction is prose in the guise of poetry , he finds himself unable to see the poem for the ...
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... reader to sense the incongruity of an apparent level of vraisemblance at which the literal meaning of a sentence could be interpreted and to construct an alternative ironic reading which accords with the vraisemblance which he is in the ...
... reader to sense the incongruity of an apparent level of vraisemblance at which the literal meaning of a sentence could be interpreted and to construct an alternative ironic reading which accords with the vraisemblance which he is in the ...
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... reader to interpret the introduction , to decipher the distance between what is said ( or not said ) and what is meant to read it ironically , in other words . The double meaning is generated from a surface commentary on the creative ...
... reader to interpret the introduction , to decipher the distance between what is said ( or not said ) and what is meant to read it ironically , in other words . The double meaning is generated from a surface commentary on the creative ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
The Ironies of Canadian | 29 |
WHO SAYS THAT CANADIAN CULTURE IS IRONIC? | 39 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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