Nina Ekstein
Corneille's Irony
Charlottesville, Virginia (USA): Rookwood Press, 2007
(EMF Critiques)
210 pp.
ISBN 978-1-886365-25-4
$ 49.95
Table des Matières:
Part I: Evident Irony
Ch. 1: Introduction
An Ironic Corneille? - Irony: A Brief Overview - Intention and Reception - Signals - The Dramatic Context - Directions
Ch. 2: Dramatic Irony
Stage-Centered Dramatic Irony - Authorial Dramatic Irony - Combining Stage-Centered and Authorial Dramatic Irony - Œdipe
Ch. 3: Verbal Irony
Signs - Types of Verbal Irony in Corneille's Theater - Nicomède - Pulchérie: Duplicity and Irony
Ch. 4: Situational Irony
Types of Situational Irony in Corneille's Theater - Irony of Fate - Oracles
Part II: Signals of Possible Irony
Ch. 5: Reduplication
Repetition - Coincidence - Symmetry - Echoic Mention - Sabine in Horace
Ch. 6: Exaggeration
Parody - Alazon - Eiron
Ch. 7: Gaps
Incongruity - Double Register - Character Contradictions - Antithesis and Paradox - Cinna
Ch. 8: Margins
Margins Between Plays - Prologue and Play - Sources - Authority
Ch. 9: Conclusion
Works Cited - Index
[ Mis en ligne le 5 septembre 2007 par Volker Schröder ]
