Irony on occasion : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man / Kevin Newmark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newmark, Kevin, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Deconstruction.

Irony in literature.

Irony.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature, Modern.

Philosophy in literature.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is it about irony--as an object of serious philosophical reflection and a literary technique of considerable elasticity--that makes it an occasion for endless critical debate? This book responds to this question by focusing on several key moments in German Romanticism and its afterlife in twentieth-century French thought and writing. It includes chapters on Friedrich Schlegel, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann, Jean Paulhan, Jacques Derrida, and Paul de Man.

Contents:

Introduction : irony on occasion

Romantic irony

Friedrich Schlegel and the myth of irony

Taking Kierkegaard apart : on the concept of irony

Modernity interrupted : Kierkegaard's Antigone

Reading Kierkegaard : to keep intact the secret

Fear and trembling : "Who is able to understand Abraham?"

Post-romantic irony

Signs of the times : Nietzsche, deconstruction, and the truth of history

Death in Venice : irony, detachment, and the aesthetic state

Terrible flowers : Jean Paulhan and the irony of rhetoric

The irony of tomorrow

On parole : legacies of Saussure, Blanchot, and Paulhan

"What is happening today in deconstruction"

Bewildering : Paul de Man, poetry, politics

Coda : dark freedom in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4016-9

0-8232-4939-5

OCLC:

923763742