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IRONY IN CHARLES DICKEN'S OLIVER TWIST

Englisia, 2016
This paper describes the types of irony used by Charles Dickens in his notable early work, Oliver Twist, as well as the reasons the irony was chosen. As a figurative language, irony is utilized to express one’s complex feelings without truly saying them.
Ika Kana Trisnawati, Sarair Sarair, Maulida Rahmi   +2 more
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Agency as Irony: Akrasia and (In)Action in Antony and Cleopatra and Othello

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2012
This paper discusses the matter of agency and intention in Shakespearean tragedy from a perspective defined by akrasia, or the perplexity which is posed by a character who wilfully makes a decision (either for action or passivity) the effect of which is ...
Carvalho Homem, Rui
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Irony and Sarcasm in Ethical Perspective [PDF]

Open Philosophy, 2020
Irony and sarcasm are two quite different, sometimes morally dubious, linguistic tropes. We can draw a distinction between them if we identify irony as a speech act that calls what is bad good and, correspondingly, sarcasm calls good bad.
Airaksinen Timo
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Towards a Half-bred Poetics: The Role of Dramatic Irony in the Short Stories of the Chicano Borderlands

Odisea, 2017
Diasporic writing has given rise to what some critics have called “Half-bred poetics” or “Hyphen poetics”, among other terms, and it is in the context of this poetics that diasporic writing can be best understood.
Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
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Socratic Irony and Argumentation [PDF]

, 2022
Socratic irony can be understood independently of the immortal heroics of Plato’s Socrates. We need a systematic account and criticism of it both as a debate-winning strategy of argumentation and teaching method.
Airaksinen, Timo
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Collective Existence in Samson Samsonov’s Film “Odinokim predostavlyaetsya obshchezhitie” (Dormitory for Singles) [PDF]

Телекинет, 2022
The article provides a study of the features of the style and character system in Samson Samsonov’s film Dormitory for Singles (1983). An important aspect of the study is the problem of “collective existence”, which is analyzed by the author in a complex
Azerskaya, Irina Arkadyevna
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The Complexity of Irony with its Types and Layers to Displaying the Vices of the Society in Jane Austen's Emma [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm
Irony is not a simple stylistic device used in literary work to enrich its meaning and themes. Irony is essential to both the writer's and the readers' cultural backgrounds.
ماجد محمد عبد الفتاح حسن
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المفارقة الدرامية في النص السردي مجموعة "كان صرحا" أنموذجا [PDF]

Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ al-Luġaẗ al-'arabiyyaẗ bi-Assiut
يتناول البحث بالدراسة النقدية المفارقة الدرامية، التي تمثل حيلة بلاغية أثيرة في النصوص الدرامية والسردية. وقد اختارت الدراسة مجموعة قصصية بعنوان "كان صرحا" للكاتبة: ليلى الأحمدي، نموذجا لها، وهي مجموعة قصصية تشتمل على ثلاث قصص طويلة؛ حيث تبدو المفارقة ...
أحمد عبدالعظيم محمد علي
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El estudio de la ironía en el texto literario

Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013
Pragmatics and narratology are the basis of this study on irony. One understands some pragmatic aspects and the dramatic structure of the ironic texts. Several of the participants' characteristics in the ironic communication are studied.
Asunción Barreras Gómez
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Between Laughter and Humility: Functions of Irony in the Middle English Poem Patience [PDF]

Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology
The article explores the poetics of irony in the Middle English poem Patience, a distinctive reinterpretation of the biblical story of Jonah and an important example of fourteenth-century alliterative poetry.
Kseniia Vielchieva
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