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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... fiction , as critics are beginning to note . The study of irony in Gallant's fiction is fast becoming a commonplace . But rather than try to place Gallant's irony in a Canadian context , I would like to approach her ironic comments ...
... fiction , as critics are beginning to note . The study of irony in Gallant's fiction is fast becoming a commonplace . But rather than try to place Gallant's irony in a Canadian context , I would like to approach her ironic comments ...
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... fiction ( making them paratextual as well ) , they provide tacit and / or explicit suggestions for interpreting that text . But Gallant's preface subverts this convention by refusing to offer specific interpretations ; rather , she ...
... fiction ( making them paratextual as well ) , they provide tacit and / or explicit suggestions for interpreting that text . But Gallant's preface subverts this convention by refusing to offer specific interpretations ; rather , she ...
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... fiction in general , it " consists entirely of more than meets the eye " ( xii ) . She uses the genre of the prefatory introduction to undercut its own intentions , and subtextually ridicules the very form that she employs , as well as ...
... fiction in general , it " consists entirely of more than meets the eye " ( xii ) . She uses the genre of the prefatory introduction to undercut its own intentions , and subtextually ridicules the very form that she employs , as well as ...
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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