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, 2011 Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action.
William Storm
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Revue LISA, 2008 If Shakespeare’s Renaissance contemporaries were keen on efficiency and “progress” (in the sense of “onward movement in space”), they also particularly enjoyed labyrinthine ways which distracted them from their primary purposes.
Sophie Alatorre
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THE ROLE OF IRONY IN EXPRESSING IMPOLITENESS
This paper studies the ways in which verbal irony can be used as an impoliteness tool. From this aspect verbal irony is investigated as a politeness means or an impoliteness tool depending on the strength of criticism, in this case the main matter is ...
Aytemiz Abbas Abbasova
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Diagnosing, Resisting, Yielding – or How the Doctor Faces the Inevitable Tragedy
Études Lawrenciennes, 2021 Elise Brault-Dreux
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Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter in German: What’s Missing in Translation?
ELOPE, 2012 Several of Harold Pinter’s works have been adapted as screenplays and filmed. This paper investigates director Robert Altman’s TV movie The Dumb Waiter in comparison with the German dubbed version, Der stumme Diener, as well as the reception of Pinter’s
Renée von Paschen
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An Italian Person of Quality Indeed!
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2017 Robert Browning’s “Up at a Villa-Down in the City” is a dramatic monologue, a fact unnoted by criticism. Browning employs irony throughout that undercuts the stated views of the speaker, who is not a person of quality, as the subtitle has announced.
Crowder Ashby Bland
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E-REA, 2016 The article focuses on the theme of blindness in Dickens’s American Notes (1842) and in The Cricket on the Hearth (1845): sight impairment is treated as a vehicle to carry the reader from landscape to inscape, staging at once truth and deception ...
Francesca ORESTANO
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Conscience lapsaire et science du lapsus dans « Fra Lippo Lippi » de Robert Browning
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 « Fra Lippo Lippi » (Men and Women, 1855) is one of the most dramatic monologues by Robert Browing. In this poem, the Italian monk and Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi is caught by the watch in the small hours of the night in a red-light district in ...
Yann Tholoniat
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“Symphony No. 2 (‘Dramatic’)” by Andrei Bely: Genesis and Poetics
Научный диалогThe relevance of this study stems from the growing interest in both the work and personality of one of the most original and enigmatically complex writers of the twentieth century, Andrei Bely (1880–1934).
N. G. Sharapenkova
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Discipleship Misunderstanding and Johannine Irony in the Poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan
, 2017 The sixth chapter takes a closer look at the influence of Johannine discipleship misunderstanding (particularly the Johannine rhetoric of dramatic irony) on the poetry of George Herbert and Henry Vaughan.
Paul Cefalu
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