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...Daniel Chaskes Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction . By Konstantinou Lee . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 368 pp. Cloth , $39.95 ; e-book available. Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference . By Hong Grace Kyungwon...

... the largest impact of the three excellent books under review here. Matthew Stratton’s The Politics of Irony in American Modernism presents irony as the site at which the aesthetic and the political intersect in US modernism. Arguing that there is a trajectory through US culture in which irony is given...

.... of Minnesota Press. 2003. xl, 331 pp. Cloth, $63.95; paper, $22.95. Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 . By Sarah E. Gardner. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 341 pp. $39.95. Book Reviews ‘‘A Hideous Monster of the Mind American...

...Merve Emre This essay argues that literary redescriptions of international American Express offices by queer writers like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and James Baldwin allowed the 1960s literary counterculture to establish a relationship to American corporate culture grounded in irony...

... constituted by figures—including metonymy, irony, and catachresis—that interrupt the substitutions of synecdoche. Vuong’s poetry foregrounds the violence enacted by state fantasies and insists on the democratic equality disavowed by consensus democracy. Together, Ward and Vuong locate the political force...

... than desexualized homosocial partnerships. My essay exam- ines Norris’s hypermasculine model of same-sex desire through the gothic doubling of McTeague and Marcus and the narrative’s pre- occupation with the oral, which culminates in a vampire-like biting.13 The same irony that illuminates McTeague...

..., which he closed with a recitation of “O Captain, My Captain.” If Whitman neglected to recite it, the audience would loudly call for it until he came back to the stage for the recitation. Cohen points out the irony of this exception to Whitman’s reception history, though he could have taken the irony...

... by the Union in 1861, the song “Maryland, My Maryland” emerged as a Confederate anthem during and after the Civil War. This contradiction is just one of the many ironies embedded in the song’s rise to popularity during a volatile period of regional strife and shifting loyalties. Tracking this rise...

... to omit such writing in Taiwan ranged from language ability insufficient to thread the needles of irony and paradox to an exam-based system of evaluation that often turns education into rote learning. Interpretation also poses problems for a Confucian educational tradition not known to encourage...

... policy and racial and ethnic ideologies to ‘‘demand, model, imagine, produce, and defend reforms that ultimately led to their acquisition of civil free agency’’ (10). Ben- nett introduces the term ‘‘affective irony’’ to name an ‘‘antisentimentality’’ that develops in these poets’ work by the middle...

... and Inclination,” Franklin finally submits to the latter and dines “upon Cod very heartily.” To excuse himself, he concocts “a Reason” for acting as he does. Recalling that fish eat other fish, he declares: “[I]f you eat one another, I don’t see why I mayn’t eat you.”5 Appetite gets its due. Irony...

... “work like a nigger,” she wrote in letters of the 1920s (to both black and white recipients), disdaining the assumptions that hemmed her in by mocking the stereotype to which she was subject as well as the labor of words (Hutchinson 2006 , 259–60, 366; cf. 354). Irony provided her with something...

... later—presents a different persona. Outside in the sculpture garden at MOMA, O’Hara stands beside the Rodin statue “St. John the Baptist Preaching,” aping the sculpture with a smile on his face and a cigarette in his hand (see fig. 2). This lesser-known image reveals an important irony...

... trade and investments. The gospel of prosperity and the ‘‘full dinner pail’’ created enormous dividends with corresponding optimism.8 It is perhaps the inevitable irony of institutionalization that the leg- acyoffoundersisbelievedtoconsistoftheletterratherthanthespirit of their own work...

... It is perhaps the inevitable irony of institutionalization that the leg- acyoffoundersisbelievedtoconsistoftheletterratherthanthespirit of their own work. Those who have sought most to defend the ‘‘legacy’’ of American literature have all too often focused on the what rather than the how. This course...

... AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 199 of 232 could hardly have been more different from Shelley’s suicidal sailing and last desolate verses. Ashbery’s imaginative verve within wry irony, dazzle, and deliberate deflation is another thing altogether...

... as perfor- mative. With his last novel, The Ancient Child (1989), his attempt to graft these myths onto native elements results in irony, as he begins to magnify both the nostalgia for lost origins and the incertitude of iden- Ethnicity and Frontier Mythology in Momaday 605 tity...

... sanctioning of apartheid in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, deftly uses satire and irony to remind readers that they may be disappointed if they make assessments based on appearance, whether of people...

...—all with an eye for nuance and irony and sometimes with dazzling effect. McPherson finds the figures of the Southern belle and the Southern home interesting, especially as they attempt to signify the South itself. Usually I don’t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Reconstructing Dixie...

...- tion and qualification of imaginative elegance (while an insurance executive) 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 199 of 232 could hardly have been more different from Shelley’s suicidal sailing and last desolate verses. Ashbery’s imaginative verve within wry irony...