A Rhetoric of Irony
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"What Wayne Booth calls the ‘stable ironies’ of the 18th century." --Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1984) by Fredric Jameson |
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A Rhetoric of Irony (1974) is a book about irony by American literary critic Wayne Booth.
Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent.
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