Of Irony: Especially in Drama
ISBN: 9781487579470
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

Professor Sedgewick examines closely the notion of irony in drama, and skillfully analyses that delight in contrast of appearance and reality, in the combination of superior knowledge and detached sympathy, which the spectator finds in contemplating the performance of the whole or individual parts of a play.


Sedgewick G.G. :

G.G. SEDGEWICK, a graduate of Dalhousie University and Harvard University, spent thirty years in the department of English at the University of British Columbia. He was an unusually gifted and inspiring teacher, and his influence spread from his own university throughout Canada.

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