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Intertextual irony : between relevance theory and Umberto Eco [PDF]

, 2023
This article discusses the advantages deriving from the interaction of pragmatics and literary theory in the study of literary irony. The first section argues that the current (mis)understanding of irony is the result of a centuries-long intertwinement ...
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Ironija i satira u dramskim djelima Maxa Frischa: Mehanizmi suočavanja s izazovima 20. stoljeća

[sic], 2014
Irony and satire, two complex phenomena, find their respective places in the dramatic works of Max Frisch (1911–1991), a Swiss playwright and novelist and have gone through many changes gaining on different meanings, depending on the socio-cultural ...
Katarina Žeravica, Boris Dudaš
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Dramatic Irony as an Intervention Strategy in Two Dholuo Films: Kalausi and The Cleansing

, 2019
Kalausi and The Cleansing are two films set in Kenya whose storylines touch on death and rituals among the Luo community of Kenya. Both films are in the language of Dholuo and place sharp focus on widowhood and its prevailing dilemmas and anxieties ...
Maseno, Loreen, Odhiambo, Christopher
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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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Max Gobbo e la riscrittura fantastica di un periodo rinascimentale

Italianistica Debreceniensis, 2017
The paper examines thè characteristics of Max Gobbo’s writing in his fantasy novel Alasia - The Iron Maiden. The novel is set in a dystopian XVI century Italy infested by demons, vampires and other strange creatures.
Franco Zangrilli
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Divagazioni su temi voltairiani: gusto, stile, lusso, ironia

Montesquieu.it, 2011
The aim of this paper is to stress the relevance in Voltaire’s thought of such notions as style and taste not only in the literary and aesthetical domains, but in the ethical one as well.
Riccardo Campi
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The synergic interface between narrative techniques and other elements of fiction: Dramatic irony and Betrayal in NGugi's A Grain of Wheat.

, 2022
The author’s goal to successfully impart a thought through fiction depends largely on the synergetic relationship between narrative techniques and other literary elements.
Bazimaziki, Gabriel
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Fragments of theatrical revelations: James Joyce’s “Epiphanies”

Linguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2011
The essay proposes an approach to the Dramatic Epiphanies, Joyce’s early works, as self- contained pieces of dramatic writing. The tools of conversational analysis are applied to the texts, which reveal the author’s grasp on dramatic dialogue, his ...
Romana Zacchi
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Reflection of Irony in O. Henry's The Gift of Magi and Firat Cewerî's Bîsîklêt Stories

Artuklu Kurdology
In this study, an analysis was conducted of the stories of the American short-story writer O. Henry and the Kurdish short-story and novel writer Firat Cewerî, The Gift of Magi and Bîsîklêt, in the context of irony.
Sami Çeliktaş
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Irony and transcendence on the Renaissance stage

, 2004
preprintThis is the concluding essay in a collection entitled 'This Earthly Stage'. The chapter argues that the peculiar task of the stage metaphor - the notion of the theatre as a metaphor for life,which involves complex interactions between rarefied ...
Wright, Laurence
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