A Rhetoric of Irony

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

A Rhetoric of Irony[1] is a book about irony by American literary critic Wayne Booth. Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent.

References

  1. ^ Booth, Wayne C. A Rhetoric of Irony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.