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Some of these have generously and critically read parts of this work, but my debt to all is a more general and deep one. While the works of many critics have been crucial to my thinking (and the references to them in the text bear witness to their number and impact), a few names stand out: Wayne Booth, Ross Chambers, Joseph Dane, Peter Hagen, D.C. In a field where there is so much fine work, it is hard to know where to start to pay one’s intellectual debts. Their helpful suggestions, devastating criticisms, and general enthusiasm and support were all equally important in making this study possible in this form. This book is dedicated to the members of WIPE (Work in Progress in English), a group of both junior and senior colleagues at the University of Toronto who read much of this manuscript over the last few years. “Untitled,” by Victor Burgin The functions of irony “Rabbit or duck?” “Notung,” by Anselm Kiefer “Innenraum,” by Anselm Kiefer “Vessel with an inverted spout,” by Beauvais Lyons Lithograph, by Beauvais Lyons Photograph of the Immudab Temple and seal, by Beauvais Lyons “Reconstruction of an Aazudian Temple,” by Beauvais Lyons “Aazudian relief fresco,” by Beauvais Lyons “For Crown & Empire,” Royal Ontario Museum exhibit “Lord Beresford’s Encounter with a Zulu,” Royal Ontario Museum exhibit Canadian stamp and explanatory panel, Royal Ontario Museum exhibitĢ1 45 57 103 107 160 162 165 165 165 181 181 195 Tricksters and enfants terribles: performing ironies INTENTION AND INTERPRETATION: IRONY AND THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDERįRAME-UPS AND THEIR MARKS: THE RECOGNITION OR ATTRIBUTION OF IRONY Provocation and controversy: the work of Anselm Kiefer The “devil’s mark” or the “snorkel of sanity”?: the contradictory functions and effects of ironyĭISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES: HOW IRONY “HAPPENS” RISKY BUSINESS: THE “ TRANSIDEOLOGICAL” POLITICS OF IRONY ISBN 1-X (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 2-4 (hbk) ISBN 3-2 (pbk) British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested ISBN 5-9 Master e-book ISBN No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 © 1995 Linda Hutcheon All rights reserved. IRONY’S EDGE The theory and politics of ironyįirst published 1994 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. She is the author of a number of related books including The Politics of Postmodernism (1989) A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction (1988) A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of TwentiethCentury Art Forms (1985) and Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox (1984). Linda Hutcheon is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. Irony’s Edge provocatively builds upon all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challenging theory of irony to date. After all, irony can just as easily legitimate as undermine relations of power. And the stakes are high -many radical artists and cultural activists consider irony to be usefully subversive others see it as more suspect. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references, mostly from contemporary culture. Irony’s Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. Irony depends upon interpretation it “happens” in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. The often “cutting” edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge.

THE END(S) OF IRONY: THE POLITICS OF APPROPRIATENESS.

INTENTION AND INTERPRETATION: IRONY AND THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER.įRAME-UPS AND THEIR MARKS: THE RECOGNITION OR ATTRIBUTION OF IRONY. MODELING MEANING: THE SEMANTICS OF IRONY.ĭISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES: HOW IRONY ~HAPPENS~. RISKY BUSINESS: THE 'TRANSIDEOLOGICAL~ POLITICS OF IRONY.