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Tag: Irony

115. (Italo Svevo)

Italo Svevo, whose talent was recognized and whose career was partially rescued by Joyce, is not much read nowadays. Joyce’s … More

Irony, Italo Svevo, James Joyce, Modernism, narration, narrative, Realism, the bourgeois, the novel

53. (Flannery O’Connor)

Irony, so common, sets her apart. She is ironic without archness, without super-subtlety, without glib or coy superiority, without contempt, … More

Flannery O'Connor, Irony, Prose, Short Story
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