The crazy fabric; essays in irony, by A. E. Dyson.
Material type: TextPublication details: London, Macmillan; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1965.Description: xiv, 233 p. 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 820.9
- PR149.I7 D9 1965
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Bibliography: p. 225-227.
WAR, NEWBERY,
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.