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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... rhetorical practices of postmodern art in general today . Perhaps it is not surprising , then , that in the visual arts this has meant that Canadian art has flourished in a postmodern context — with its problematized ironic confron ...
... rhetorical practices of postmodern art in general today . Perhaps it is not surprising , then , that in the visual arts this has meant that Canadian art has flourished in a postmodern context — with its problematized ironic confron ...
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... rhetorical usages con- sciously inserted by a writer in order to warn her audience that what she says is not to be taken at face value ; and on the other , interpreta- tive possibilities which depend not on authorial intention but on ...
... rhetorical usages con- sciously inserted by a writer in order to warn her audience that what she says is not to be taken at face value ; and on the other , interpreta- tive possibilities which depend not on authorial intention but on ...
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... rhetorical strategy that is popular among women novelists today : I suspect this is because its ironic double - voicing allows a writer to speak to her culture , from within that culture , but without being totally recuperated by it ...
... rhetorical strategy that is popular among women novelists today : I suspect this is because its ironic double - voicing allows a writer to speak to her culture , from within that culture , but without being totally recuperated by it ...
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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aesthetic anglo-Canadian Arachne Arachne's artist Atwood Baumgarten's called Canada Canadian art Canadian culture Canadian literature centre contemporary context conventions critical critique deconstructive Denniston Dionne Brand Dionysus discourse dominant ideology double essay European example F.R. Scott Famous Last Words female minoritarian feminine gothic feminism feminist fiction Findley Findley's found poem found poetry Gallant Gallery gender genre Gurney hero heroine Home Truths homosexual Hutcheon Indians interpretations introduction ironic irony Joanne Tod kind Kroetsch Lady Oracle language Linda Hutcheon literally literary male Margaret Atwood marginalized Mauberley Mauberley's meaning memory metanarratives minoritarian mode monument Muecke myth narrative native non-white Canadians novel Ontario painting parodic poetic poetry political position possible postmodern Pound preface racial reader reading refers relation representation rhetorical Robert Wiens sense sexual social speak speech strategy structure suggests tion Tod's Toronto total ambiguity tradition trope verbal voice woman women writing