Literary Irony and the Literary Audience : Studies in the Victimization of the Reader in Augustan Fiction /

Literary Irony and the Literary Audience : Studies in the Victimization of the Reader in Augustan Fiction /

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Main Author: McKee, John B. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1974.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.

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Authors and readers > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Classicism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > Roman influences.
Irony in literature.
Reader-response criticism.

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Call Number: PR858.I7

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material /
  • John B. McKee
  • Preface /
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  • Chapter I Reader Victimizing Irony: Two Basic Techniques /
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  • Chapter II The Speaker as Ironist: Context Withholding in the Prologues of Tom Jones /
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  • Chapter III The Speaker as Victim: Context Withholding in Gulliver's Travels /
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  • Chapter IV The Ironist as Explorer: Information and Context Withholding in Tristram Shandy /
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  • Chapter V Conclusions /
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  • Back Matter
  • Appendix I A Short History of "Irony" /
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  • Appendix II Some Modern Approaches to Systematizing Irony /
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  • A Selected Bibliography /
  • John B. McKee.