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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... found poem . In fact , in transcribing the Parisian street sign , and in drawing our attention to its ambi- guities , Muecke acts as a found poet . Franz Stanzel's definition of found poetry , " poetry not written by a poet but found ...
... found poem . In fact , in transcribing the Parisian street sign , and in drawing our attention to its ambi- guities , Muecke acts as a found poet . Franz Stanzel's definition of found poetry , " poetry not written by a poet but found ...
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... found poetry makes possible a refiguring of “ plate , ” since it uses a gastronomic trope . It also employs a variation on the term “ exposure ” : Most found poems begin their lives as passages of expository prose . Their intended ...
... found poetry makes possible a refiguring of “ plate , ” since it uses a gastronomic trope . It also employs a variation on the term “ exposure ” : Most found poems begin their lives as passages of expository prose . Their intended ...
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... found poem , like irony , " provokes " us into wilfully and radically " misinterpreting " texts whose meaning is , superficially at least , obvious . John Robert Colombo , Canada's most widely published found poet , comments on this ...
... found poem , like irony , " provokes " us into wilfully and radically " misinterpreting " texts whose meaning is , superficially at least , obvious . John Robert Colombo , Canada's most widely published found poet , comments on this ...
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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