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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University of Oregon
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18322 |