Romantic Irony as a Source of Value Judgment in Modernism and New Criticism
This article discusses how the reception of Romantic irony in modernism and New Criticism bears significant implications for the emergence of irony as a key evaluative term in contemporary literary criticism. In particular, this article shows how irony usually alludes to a feature of the artist’s i...
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This article discusses how the reception of Romantic irony in modernism and New Criticism bears significant implications for the emergence of irony as a key evaluative term in contemporary literary criticism. In particular, this article shows how irony usually alludes to a feature of the artist’s intelligence, as expressed by Ezra Pound, André Breton, Walter Benjamin, and Thomas Mann for instance. It also addresses how the concept of irony, as identified in North American New Criticism by Cleanth Brooks, among others, takes on an ambiguous and self-serving meaning, ultimately at the service of the critics’ value claims.
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| spelling | doaj.art-a9d25dc097714e0cbc2d9d3dc80f47c02023-06-30T06:50:07ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoCoSMO2281-66582023-06-012210.13135/2281-6658/7822Romantic Irony as a Source of Value Judgment in Modernism and New CriticismAndrea Brondino0Università di Torino This article discusses how the reception of Romantic irony in modernism and New Criticism bears significant implications for the emergence of irony as a key evaluative term in contemporary literary criticism. In particular, this article shows how irony usually alludes to a feature of the artist’s intelligence, as expressed by Ezra Pound, André Breton, Walter Benjamin, and Thomas Mann for instance. It also addresses how the concept of irony, as identified in North American New Criticism by Cleanth Brooks, among others, takes on an ambiguous and self-serving meaning, ultimately at the service of the critics’ value claims. https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COSMO/article/view/7822Romantic IronyModernismNew CriticismCleanth BrooksValue Judgment |
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| title | Romantic Irony as a Source of Value Judgment in Modernism and New Criticism |
| title_full | Romantic Irony as a Source of Value Judgment in Modernism and New Criticism |
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| title_short | Romantic Irony as a Source of Value Judgment in Modernism and New Criticism |
| title_sort | romantic irony as a source of value judgment in modernism and new criticism |
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