The crazy fabric; essays in irony, by A. E. Dyson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1965.Description: xiv, 233 p. 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9
LOC classification:
  • PR149.I7 D9 1965
Contents:
Swift: the metamorphosis of irony -- Fielding: satiric and comic irony -- Sterne: the novelist as jester -- Gibbon: dismissive irony -- Peacock: the wand of enchantment -- Thackeray: an irony against heroes -- Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn and the whole truth -- Samuel Butler: the honest sceptic -- Oscar Wilde: irony of a socialist aesthete -- Lytton Strachey: the technique of debunking -- Aldous Huxley: and the two nothings -- Evelyn Waugh: and the mysteriously disappearing hero -- Orwell: irony as prophecy.
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Bibliography: p. 225-227.

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Swift: the metamorphosis of irony -- Fielding: satiric and comic irony -- Sterne: the novelist as jester -- Gibbon: dismissive irony -- Peacock: the wand of enchantment -- Thackeray: an irony against heroes -- Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn and the whole truth -- Samuel Butler: the honest sceptic -- Oscar Wilde: irony of a socialist aesthete -- Lytton Strachey: the technique of debunking -- Aldous Huxley: and the two nothings -- Evelyn Waugh: and the mysteriously disappearing hero -- Orwell: irony as prophecy.