Magill R. Jay. Chic Ironic Bitterness

формат pdf
размер 1.09 МБ
добавлен 22 января 2012 г.

University of Michigan Press, 2007 - 296 p.

A brilliant and timely reflection on irony in contemporary American culture
Chic Ironic Bitteess is a defense of this detachment, an attitude that helps us preserve values such as authenticity, sincerity, and seriousness that might otherwise be lost in a world filled with spin, marketing, and jargon. And it is an effective counterweight to the prevailing conservative view that irony is the first step toward cynicism and the breakdown of Weste culture.

ISBN10: 0472116215 ISBN13: 9780472116218 (eng)

Похожие разделы

Смотрите также

Booth Allyson. Postcards from the trenches. Negotiating the space between modernism and the first world war

формат pdf
размер 13.32 МБ
добавлен 17 февраля 2011 г.

Oxford University Press, 1996. 186 p. Nearly all literary criticism of the First World War contends, either directly or indirectly, with Paul Fussell's classic account in The Great War and Modern Memory (London: Oxford University Press, 1975). Indeed, the status of Fussell's thesis in studies of the war can hardly be overstated: although in rare cases critics do dispute Fussell's argument that "there seems to be one dominating form of modern un...