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Disfiguring Socratic Irony [PDF]
This article pursues an antihermeneutic conception of Socratic irony that troubles the borders between pedagogical authority and humility. One of the most tenacious ways of troping the teacher-student relation, Socratic irony is often figured as a way ...
Eric Detweiler
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Irony as Inferred Contradiction
“If we acknowledge the existence of an Irony Principle, we should also acknowledge another ‘higher-order principle’ which has the opposite effect.
Laura Alba-Juez
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Orkney snork nie/Orkney sno…: Perspektiewe op herhaling en ironie
This article considers the problematic relationship between irony and repetition. Drawing on the work of Friedrich Schlegel, irony is, in an ironic way, defined as the simultaneous validity of two mutually exclusive possibilities between which it is ...
J. Geertsema
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Irony and transcendence on the Renaissance stage [PDF]
This 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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L’« ironie catastrophique » de Reinhard Jirgl dans Renégat. Roman du temps nerveux (2005)
Catastrophe and irony are both based on a decoupling between appearance and reality. By the upheaval that results, a catastrophe reveals what normal situations usually mask.
Anne Lemonnier-Lemieux
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A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF IRONY IN POLITICAL ELECTORAL SPEECHES
This paper deals with irony in electoral political speeches from pragmatic point of view represented by two American candidates: Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
Fareed Al-Hindawi, Basim Kadhim
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This chapter makes a case for combining the critical analysis of discourse with an embrace of ‘self-reflexive irony’ (Jessop, 2002, 2004a) in the investigation of the articulations between the Knowledge Based Economy (KBE) and education policy in the ...
Jones, Peter D.
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Ironie, valeurs cognitives et bêtise [PDF]
Cet article examine les théories de l’ironie comme feintise de Jancke (1929) et de Currie (2007) et défend une théorie de la feintise selon laquelle les évaluations de l’ironiste sont plus importantes que ses émotions, négatives et positives, et portent ...
Mulligan, Kevin
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Litotes, Irony and other Innocent Lies [PDF]
In the following text we would like to present the philosophical discussion on untrusting lies, which introduces a space for innocent lie understood as figurative manipulation of the speech: a poetic trope that we would argue could not only be generously
Haaz, Ignace
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