In this chapter, an overview of the various rhetorical and pragmatic views of irony is offered. By analyzing Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, the author identifies a number of ironic stances which go from mere inversion through echoic repetition to what he calls "perspectival disengagement" - Dickens' narrator voicing opinions or sentiments that he does not at all endorse.
Irony. Irony in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby: Rhetoric, Pragmatics, Voice and Point of View
MORINI, MASSIMILIANO
2016
Abstract
In this chapter, an overview of the various rhetorical and pragmatic views of irony is offered. By analyzing Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, the author identifies a number of ironic stances which go from mere inversion through echoic repetition to what he calls "perspectival disengagement" - Dickens' narrator voicing opinions or sentiments that he does not at all endorse.File in questo prodotto:
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