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... irony as a literary device . Thus Professor J.T. Boulton , dismissing the idea that Defoe was an accomplished ironist , writes : To write ironically with success a writer needs to be alert to two audiences : those who will recognise the ...
... irony as a literary device . Thus Professor J.T. Boulton , dismissing the idea that Defoe was an accomplished ironist , writes : To write ironically with success a writer needs to be alert to two audiences : those who will recognise the ...
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... ironic defences of genocide , illustrate two very different methods of political satire . One possible tactic for the satirist is to set about the deliberate deception of an audience . According to Kierkegaard , the true end of irony ...
... ironic defences of genocide , illustrate two very different methods of political satire . One possible tactic for the satirist is to set about the deliberate deception of an audience . According to Kierkegaard , the true end of irony ...
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... irony at all , ' the privileges of a Dublin beggar ' . He disowns these ' foreigners ' with a complete absence of ... irony of the poem . For what Pope's objections ignored were the fictional dynamics of the poem which give the irony its ...
... irony at all , ' the privileges of a Dublin beggar ' . He disowns these ' foreigners ' with a complete absence of ... irony of the poem . For what Pope's objections ignored were the fictional dynamics of the poem which give the irony its ...
Contents
Themes and Forms of Augustan Satire | 32 |
Pope | 99 |
John Gay | 122 |
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