Irony

  • Irony
    Irony
    By John Drakakis, Claire Colebrook, UK)

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  • Irony: The Animal
    Irony: The Animal
    By Robert Shroud

    She wouldn't hear of it. She wanted to have it out about his job then ... He probably would not like her anyway because she wasn't Carol. >!!!!!< ... Reg thought, gearing up for the chase, and then taking off after his suspect.

  • Irony
    Irony
    By Douglas Colin Muecke

    Nature of irony -- Sarcasm -- Impersonal irony -- Self-disparaging irony -- Ingenu irony -- Irony of self-betrayal -- Irony of simple incongruity -- Dramatic irony -- General irony --...

  • Irony
    Irony
    By Claire Colebrook

    Alcibiades arrives and we are given a performance ofa quite different mode of Eros: Eros as an ironic engagement between master and pupil, rather than Eros as a fixed essence or what love ultimately grasps. Both modes of Socratic irony,&nbsp;...

  • Irony
    Irony
    By Claire Colebrook

    ... irony is cosmic irony , or the irony of fate . Related to cosmic irony , or the way the word ' irony ' covers twists of fate in everyday life , is the more literary concept of dramatic or tragic irony . This is most intense when the&nbsp;...