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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... poetic . But sud- denly poetry is discovered imbedded within the prose . The discoverer is someone alert to the possibilities of irony , absurd- ity , and other incongruities ( 271 , emphasis added ) . Found poetry is " easily ...
... poetic . But sud- denly poetry is discovered imbedded within the prose . The discoverer is someone alert to the possibilities of irony , absurd- ity , and other incongruities ( 271 , emphasis added ) . Found poetry is " easily ...
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... poetic presentation of the poem both encompasses and conflicts with the " footnote " identifying the text's prosaic context . The poem thus suggests a " change in the level " of its own reading . " Encyclopaedia Britannica " and the ...
... poetic presentation of the poem both encompasses and conflicts with the " footnote " identifying the text's prosaic context . The poem thus suggests a " change in the level " of its own reading . " Encyclopaedia Britannica " and the ...
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... poetic reading of " Treaty " is a verbal contract F.R. Scott frames , especially since our biographical knowl- edge of Scott as law professor , social philosopher , political activist , and poet - satirist seems to encourage a combined ...
... poetic reading of " Treaty " is a verbal contract F.R. Scott frames , especially since our biographical knowl- edge of Scott as law professor , social philosopher , political activist , and poet - satirist seems to encourage a combined ...
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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