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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... voice is often a doubled one , that of the forked tongue of irony . Although usually seen as either a defensive or an offensive rhetorical weapon , irony ( in the basic semantic sense of stating one thing and meaning another ) is also a ...
... voice is often a doubled one , that of the forked tongue of irony . Although usually seen as either a defensive or an offensive rhetorical weapon , irony ( in the basic semantic sense of stating one thing and meaning another ) is also a ...
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... voice on the one side of the verbal / visual comparison is , we might say , echoed by the materialization on the ... voices that run vertically on either side of the seemingly straightforward recipe for abstraction . These voices are ...
... voice on the one side of the verbal / visual comparison is , we might say , echoed by the materialization on the ... voices that run vertically on either side of the seemingly straightforward recipe for abstraction . These voices are ...
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... voice , evidently not girlish enough , that finds the Prince " a little bit of a feller . " The trajectory of Famous Last Words makes Mauberley a figure of abandonment , both by his parents , in the outermost frame of the novel , and by ...
... voice , evidently not girlish enough , that finds the Prince " a little bit of a feller . " The trajectory of Famous Last Words makes Mauberley a figure of abandonment , both by his parents , in the outermost frame of the novel , and by ...
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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