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The Meaning of Irony: A Psychoanalytic Investigation.

・ISBN 978-0-7914-1978-6 paper US$ 33.95

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著者・編者 Stringfellow Jr., Frank,
シリーズ (SUNY series, The Margins of Literature)
出版社 (State University of New York Press, US)
出版年 1994
ページ数 177 pp.
ニュース番号 <L25-38420>

Genuinely interdisciplinary in approach, The Meaning of Irony brings together literary analysis and, from psychoanalysis, both theory and case studies. Its investigation ranges from everyday examples of verbal irony-conscious and unconscious-to the complex irony of literature.

This book provides the first full account of verbal irony from a psychoanalytic point of view. Stringfellow shows how the rhetorical tradition, by viewing the literal level of irony as something the speaker doesn't really mean, flattens out the rich ambiguities of irony and misses the unconscious meanings that are hidden behind ironic statement. He argues that only psychoanalysis can recover these unconscious meanings and reveal the origins of irony.