Studies in the New Testament and Gnosticism

Studies in the New Testament and Gnosticism
Author: George W. MacRae
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1556355955

George W. MacRae, SJ (1928-1985) was an internationally known scholar in the field of New Testament studies. He received his doctorate from Cambridge University in New Testament studies, taught New Testament at Weston School of Theology and was Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at Harvard University, where he was serving as acting dean of the theology faculty at the time of his death. He was a renowned scholar on the Gospel of John. Book jacket.

The Early T. S. Eliot and Western Philosophy

The Early T. S. Eliot and Western Philosophy
Author: Rafey Habib
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1999-06-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521624336

Study of Eliot's philosophical writings, assessing their impact on his early poetry and literary criticism.

Irony and the Ironic

Irony and the Ironic
Author: D. C. Muecke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1315388324

First published in 1970 and revised in 1982, this work provides a critical overview of the concept of irony in literary criticism. After establishing the relationship of the ironical and the non-ironical, it summarises the history of the concept of irony, before isolating and discussing its basic aspects and the variable features that determine its nature, effect and quality. The book will be a useful resource for those studying irony and English Literature.

Irony's Edge

Irony's Edge
Author: Linda Hutcheon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134937547

The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.

Political Returns

Political Returns
Author: John Evan Seery
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-07-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000307336

This book presents a theory of the politics of irony and tests this theory through readings of political theory texts and through an analysis of the politics of the contemporary anti-nuclear movement, and argues that political writing must be ironic.

The Romantic Irony of Semiotics

The Romantic Irony of Semiotics
Author: Marike Finlay
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110872900

The Romantic Irony of Semiotics: Friedrich Schlegel and the Crisis of Representation (Approaches to Semiotics [As]).

Irony and the Logic of Modernity

Irony and the Logic of Modernity
Author: Armen Avanessian
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2015-09-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 3110424606

The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g. in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the dandy. It fully develops in the novel, the modern genre par excellence: in novels of the early 19th century no less than in those of postmodernity or in those of the masters of citation, parody, and pastiche of classical modernism (Musil, Joyce, and Proust). This book, however, goes one step further. Looking at how such different authors as Schmitt, Kafka, and Rorty identify the political conflicts, contradictions, and paradoxes of the 20th century as ironical and offers a comprehensive account of the constitutive irony of modernity’s ethical, poetical, and political logic.