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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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Peirce's semiotic approach to irony
, 2019 As someone famously said, irony is usually regarded as "saying what you mean without meaning what you say. "But how exactly this can be achieved is not easy to answer. More precisely, this characterization applies to verbal irony.
Vargas, Evelyn
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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 +2 more
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Differences in use and function of verbal irony between real and fictional discourse: (mis)interpretation and irony blindness [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a contrastive approach to the presence of two distinct types of verbal irony in real (natural, unscripted) versus fictional (scripted) discourse, with a special focus on irony blindness, i.e.
Kapogianni, Eleni
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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-FayūmIrony 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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LXX Judith: Removing the fourth wall
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Given the strong mimetic and dramatic qualities found in Judith the authors make the suggestion that perhaps, before LXX Judith became a fixed, written text, the basic fabula might well have been part of an oral tradition.
Nicholas P.L. Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan
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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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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 PhilologyThe 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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Academy of Dramatic Art Prospectus, 1967-1968 [PDF]
, 1967 First prospectus of the Academy of Dramatic ...
Oakland University. Academy of Dramatic Art
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