Irony (The New Critical Idiom)
990 kr.In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present.
Students will welcome this clear, concise guide, which:- traces the use of the concept through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era
- looks closely at the work of Socrates and the more contemporary theorists Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze
- explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions of irony
- applies theories of irony to literary texts
Making even the most difficult debates accessible and clear, this is the ideal student introduction to the many theories of irony.
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics and the Study of Literature
990 kr.A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages.