The rise and fall of irony.(Italian Literature Today)

From: World Literature Today | Date: March 22, 1997| Author: Marenco, Franco | Copyright information

The 19th- and 20th-century Italian and English intellectuals differed in their views regarding irony in literature. The English intellectual cannot indulge in irony as freely as his Italian counterpart due to his 'national-popular' culture. Such a paradigm of irony is reflective of the literary change from the 1930s to the 1990s when parody of certain accepted modes began to grow in popularity.

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