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Ironic Distancing: Injecting Bigotry into the American Mainstream
This dissertation defines ironic distancing as a particular function of the trope of irony used to deny a speaker's agency and/or responsibility for a statement by claiming, often post-hoc, that the ostensible meaning of their statement has been misinterpreted and was, in fact, meant to be …
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Ironic images of motherhood in contemporary French cinema
… presenting her and her various roles in an ironic manner, contemporary French directors François Ozon, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, and Noémie Lvovsky are each able to provide insight into what society expects of mothers and how mothers and non-mothers react and exist inside the demands of a …
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Ironic Multiplicity: Fernando's "Pessoas" Suspended in Kierkegaardian Irony
… "aesthetic" texts by reading them in the ironic tone in which they were written. This paper offers a similar re-reading of the poetic and prose works Pessoa attributes to his heteronyms.</p> <p>Kierkegaard's presentation of Socrates as irony serves as a model for how Pessoa sustains the …
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"""Holy Rapes Upon Our Wills"": Donne's Mimetic-Ironic Satire"
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Ironic American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Open Self
… relations, especially those we could call "ironic." I am reading Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History alongside Eric Voegelin's and Woodrow Wilson's philosophical and political treatment of freedom, expressed through the ideal of American personhood. American entertainment …
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Scepticism and ironic correlations in the joy statements of Qoheleth?
… attempts to answer is: Can scepticism and ironic correlations be found in the joy statements of Qoheleth? After examining the thesis question, the conclusion was drawn (thesis): Even if there is no scepticism in the joy statements of Qoheleth, one must be sceptical about any interpretation …
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Fake news, real hip: rhetorical dimensions of ironic communication in mass media
This paper explores the growing genre of fake news, a blend of information, entertainment, and satire, in main stream mass media, specifically examining the work of Stephen Colbert. First, this work examines classic definitions of satire and contemporary definitions and usages of irony in an effort …
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The Ironic Representation of Masculine Heroism and Courage in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage
The thesis explores the ironic representation of masculine heroism and courage in Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage.
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The Conception of Irony with Continual Reference to Kierkegaard: An Examination of Ironic Play in Fear and Trembling
… applies to Kierkegaard's Socrates who lived ironically in the space between actuality and ideality. This thesis considers how Abraham also lived in ironic space and why ironic space is a prerequisite for faith. Unlike Socrates, Abraham did not stop with irony, but used irony to open ironic …
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The Third Story: An Exploration of Intergrating Ironic Counterpoint into the Multimodal Text-image Relationship of Children's Picturebooks
… a particular emphasis on the implementation of "ironic counterpoint" as a narrative device. Recognizing the complexity inherent in multimodal narratives, this study aims to clarify how the interplay of verbal and visual modes not only creates meaning but also fosters reader engagement. Building …
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Poetic irony in Thomas Hardy's Satires of Circumstance.
… Chapters 2 through 5 explore the varieties of ironic expression in the four groups of poems in Satires of Circumstance, using the poetics approach to analyze literary language, poetic structure, narrative elements, and reader response. These four chapters focus upon irony in narrative …
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The tripod in the dunny : a study of Patrick White's sylleptic habits
… the discursive puissance of a detached and ironic narrative stance. His habitually ironic perspective is ascribed to his apparent sense that human life is governed by fiction, and that such governance is morally equivocal. The chapter concludes with the specification of gossip as a malicious …
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Picturing irony: Making a visual case-study from the work of Camus
… Australian regional death industry with an ironic autobiographical narrative voice inspired by that of Meursault in Albert Camus’ The Outsider (1942). The photobook that results uses the drama, the text and techniques in representation and sequencing to create an ironic tone in an otherwise …
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Doomed to Irony, Condemned to Laughter: The Structure and Function of Irony in the Prose Fiction of Nikolai Gogol
… As a result, these works constitute a series of "ironic portraits." By the time Gogol has reached the apex of his creative powers in the latter half of the 1830s he learns to manipulate the various discourses he includes in his tales such that we sense the lurking presence of Gogol himself (as …
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On knowingness : irony and queerness in the works of Byron, Heine, Fontane, and Wilde
… Second, in Heine's Buch der Lieder we find ironic strategies that Richard Rorty subsumed into the concept of 'final vocabularies.' By acknowledging the formulaic nature of language in general and Romantic tropes in particular, Heine succeeds in subverting a heteronormative discourse on love …
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An Examination of a Potential Moderator of the Relationship Between Thought Suppression and Preoccupation with Previously Suppressed Thoughts
… deliberate thought suppression may lead to the ironic effects of becoming preoccupied by the very same thoughts one wishes to avoid. Based on the results of these laboratory studies, a sophisticated model of thought suppression (i.e., Ironic Process Theory) has been developed. It has been argued …
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Mary, Don't You Weep Martha, Don't You Moan: A Collection Of Three Short Stories
… the loneliness of older women. "Friends" is an ironic attempt to examine one woman's "family values."
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Phallic/ies and Hi(s)stories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, From Slave Spirituals to Rap Music
… to Rap Music"" traces the unique---and ironic---survival and transformation of a literary political tradition initiated by the male members of an early nineteenth-century urban Black bourgeoisie into a politicized form of oral expression invented by the male members of a late …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… – that models a form of selfhood which views our ironic and belated condition as a fecund limitation. The Jamesian man of imagination encourages the continual (but never resolvable) quest for a coherent creative identity by demonstrating how our need to sacrifice elements of life (e.g. desires and …
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