From Icon To Irony
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From Icon To Irony
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Author : Kim Sichel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
From Icon To Irony written by Kim Sichel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.
Irony And Meaning In The Hebrew Bible
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Author : Carolyn J. Sharp
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008-12-23
Irony And Meaning In The Hebrew Bible written by Carolyn J. Sharp and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-23 with Religion categories.
Was God being ironic in commanding Eve not to eat fruit from the tree of wisdom? Carolyn J. Sharp suggests that many stories in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically intended. Deftly interweaving literary theory and exegesis, Sharp illumines the power of the unspoken in a wide variety of texts from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings. She argues that reading with irony in mind creates a charged and open rhetorical space in the texts that allows character, narration, and authorial voice to develop in unexpected ways. Main themes explored here include the ironizing of foreign rulers, the prostitute as icon of the ironic gaze, indeterminacy and dramatic irony in prophetic performance, and irony in ancient Israel's wisdom traditions. Sharp devotes special attention to how irony destabilizes dominant ways in which the Bible is read today, especially when it touches on questions of conflict, gender, and the Other.
Charles Sheeler
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Author : Mark Rawlinson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-09-09
Charles Sheeler written by Mark Rawlinson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-09 with Art categories.
Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic. This major new rethink of one of the key figures of American modernism argues that Sheeler's true relationship to progress was in fact highly negative, his 'precisionism' both skewed and imprecise. Covering the entire oeuvre from photography to painting and drawing attention to the inconsistencies, curiosities and 'puzzles' embedded in Sheeler's work, Rawlinson reveals a profound critique of the processes of rationalisation and the conditions of modernity. The book argues finally for a re-evaluation of Sheeler's often dismissed late work which, it suggests, may only be understood through a radical shift in our understanding of the work of this prominent figure.
The Big Book Of Irony
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Author : Jon Winokur
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-02-06
The Big Book Of Irony written by Jon Winokur and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-06 with Humor categories.
Jon Winokur defines and classifies irony and contrasts it with coincidence and cynicism, and other oft-confused concepts that many think are ironic. He looks at the different forms irony can take, from an irony deficiency to visual irony to an understatement, using photographs and relate-able examples from pop culture. * "Irony in Action" looks at irony in language, both verbal and visual, while "Bastions of Irony" and "Masters of Irony" look at institutions and individuals steeped in irony, though not always intentionally. PLUS: * The Annals of Irony looks at irony, and its lack thereof, throughout history. A delight for anyone with a smart, dark sense of humor.
Divine Madness
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Author : Lars Elleström
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2002
Divine Madness written by Lars Elleström and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art categories.
This book provides a theory that enables the concept of irony to be transferred from the literary to the visual and aural domains. Topics include the historical roots of the concept of irony as modes of oral and literary expression, and how irony relates to spatiality.
Irony S Edge
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Author : Linda Hutcheon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Irony S Edge written by Linda Hutcheon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. 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 from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.
The Wounded Body
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Author : Dennis Patrick Slattery
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
The Wounded Body written by Dennis Patrick Slattery and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.
Perverse Desire And The Ambiguous Icon
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Author : Allen S. Weiss
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Perverse Desire And The Ambiguous Icon written by Allen S. Weiss and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon analyzes the limits of the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse, and in doing so expands the range of non-normative paradigms of spectatorial identification and sexual identity. These considerations are based on the epistemological premises that the ideal seldom coincides with the empirical, and that identification is always partial, fragmented, heterogeneous, mixed, such that total identification would be tantamount to delirium. The imagination is but the ephemera of partial objects torn from culture and history, the transgression by fragmentation of a contemporary cosmos all too unified and all too controlled to admit the most singular, and idiosyncratic, phantasms of our desires. Thus we must posit an aesthetics where theory and interpretation are juxtaposed to, or traced above, the effects of the passions, where a muscular contraction or spasm is worth as much as a concept. It is here, at the fragile limit between iconophilia and iconoclasm, that the ironies and exigencies of poetic justice reside.
American Icons
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Author : Benedikt Feldges
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-12-12
American Icons written by Benedikt Feldges and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-12 with Education categories.
Shedding light on the historicity of icons to reframe the history of the screen and dissect the visual core of a medium that is still poorly understood, this book presents new ways of seeing the mechanisms at work in our modern pictorial culture.
Irony And The Modern Theatre
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Author : William Storm
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-05
Irony And The Modern Theatre written by William Storm and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-05 with Drama categories.
Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.