Laughter Shared or the Games Poets Play: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Irony in Postwar American Poetry

During and after the First World War, English-language poets employed various ironic techniques to address war's dark absurdities. These methods, I argue, have various degrees of efficacy, depending upon the ethics of the poetry's approach to its reading audience. I judge these ethical dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Summers, Stephen
Other Authors: Whalan, Mark
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18322