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| | Irony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The expression “irony of fate” stems from the notion that the gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals, with deliberate ironic intent. | | | Irony is best known as a figure of speech (more precisely called verbal irony) in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. | | | The irony deepens as the story promotes his romance and ends in a double wedding. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
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| | Irony - StoneHome |
| | Irony is believed to have been imported to English from the Latin ironia in 1502, in turn from the Greek eironeia, a conjugation of eiron - to dissemble, such as lying by omission or by concealment of true intent. | | | Irony is the use of words in a way to conceal true intention with literal intention. | | | When someone fails and another says "good job, man," that's irony in its simplest form: they mean something other than the superficial intent of the words. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Weekend The final irony |
| | In the second instance, situational irony (also known as cosmic irony) occurs when it seems that "God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed"(1). | | | Once you've got one of those, then a) the act of seeking the truth through irony is pointless, because the truth is staring you in the face; and b) the postmodern ironic distance that eschews concepts like "good" and "evil" has been trounced. | | | This romantic (or "philosophical") irony had a great influence on the English Romantic poets - Coleridge's Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, with its commentary running alongside the narrative, divides the perspective (plus, he read Schlegel, so I'm not just making that up). |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,985375,00.html
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| | Irony in Modern American Religion |
| | The irony of ironists, observed and dissected by ironologists, literary irony is “a figure of speech,&; defined as one “in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt.” | | | The late R. Collingwood was fond of saying that the kind of history one wrote, or the way one thought about history, was ultimately a function of the kind of man one was. | | | On such terms White promoted, as alternatives, “the great poetic, scientific, and philosophical concerns” of the nineteenth century that were being eclipsed by the ironic in the twentieth century. |
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http://www.illuminos.com/mem/selectPapers/ironyFigLit.html
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| | Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": "Irony" by Norman D. Knox |
| | The comic irony of praise through blame, which had also originated in Socratic self-depreciation, remained a minor figure of speech until the early eighteenth century, when in England, at least, Swift, Pope, and their friends recognized it as a delightful mode in which to write letters and converse. | | | In the early eighteenth century, the omnipresence of French and English satiric literature brought the idea of irony, so called, out of the classroom into the intellectual marketplace; during the intervening twenty centuries it lived in, or on the edge of, rhetorical theory, the two chief fountains of which were Cicero and Quintilian. | | | It soon became commonplace to think of the field of irony as life itself, and of mankind as the victim of a cosmic author. |
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http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/ironydhi.html
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| | D. Anthony Storm's Commentary On Kierkegaard - The Concept of Irony |
| | But if irony is a qualification of subjectivity, then it must manifest itself the first time subjectivity makes its appearance in world history. | | | He is free from the constraint in which the given actuality holds the subject, but he is negatively free and as such is suspended, because there is nothing that holds him. | | | The judges at its defence agreed that it was an intelligent and noteworthy work, but were concerned about its style, which some thought to be ambling, wordy, and idiosyncratic. |
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http://sorenkierkegaard.org/kw2a.htm
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is irony a sin? |
| | I am not a prophet." Therefore irony, whereby a man belittles himself in words, is not a sin. | | | It belongs to a well-disposed mind that a man tend to perfect righteousness, and consequently deem himself guilty, not only if he fall short of common righteousness, which is truly a sin, but also if he fall short of perfect righteousness, which sometimes is not a sin. | | | It seems that irony, which consists in belittling oneself, is not a sin. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/311301.htm
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| | Irony and Ignorance |
| | The description of a situation as the irony of Fate is thus a subjective attempt to explain the inexplicable or unexpected. | | | A situation that appears to have arisen naturally (i.e., in the normal or natural course of events) is sometimes of such a character that it can be more satisfactorily explained as an act of malice or mischief by Fate, i.e., an act of interference that on the surface was a natural occurrence. | | | What is damned funny is that an entire generation of pseudo-intellectual critics, with the world's educational resources at their disposal, criticize a person's usage of a word while unable to grasp it themselves. |
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| | Irony's Arrows/Eros |
| | At the end of his essay, he wrote: "Surely, after so much turning in the ironies of rationalistic profaning of the mysteries, it would be an unexpected turn to topple into sense by way of comedy, to
know the new anagnorisis—the carnival of forms, the festivals of glory, the exploits of joy." [7] | | | The famous scholar of “irony,” D. Muecke, in his book The Compass of Irony, wrote: “Getting to grips with irony seems to have something in common with gathering the mist; there is plenty to take hold of if only one could.” See: Glenn S. Holland, Divine Irony (Selingsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2000), 19. | | | And it may be, as Glenn Holland has observed in a recent book, that the irony is divine. |
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http://web.syr.edu/~dlmiller/IronysArrows.htm
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| | Inside Higher Ed :: Isn't It Ironic? |
| | There is the irony of Plato’s dialogues, where men who are very sure of their own competence try to explain things to Socrates (who says that he knows nothing, yet quickly, through simple questions, ties their arguments into the Athenian equivalent of pretzels). | | | For example, in the spring of 1934, Oppenheimer earmarks three percent of his salary to help German physicists who are fleeing the Nazis. | | | In no case that I recall do Bird and Sherwin use the word in anything like an appropriate way. |
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http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/05/05/mclemee
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| | BBC NEWS Magazine Do the Americans get irony? |
| | Brits who attempt to use "irony" constantly in everyday conversation come across here as sarcastic, tiresome, and rude. | | | A country which apparently understands irony cannot produce decent ironic comedy. | | | It seems a pity that your closing line by Freedman doesn't seem to contain anything close to a proper definition of irony. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3433375.stm
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| | Dictionary of the History of Ideas |
| | James's “full irony,” the “objective irony” of Thomas | | | tivity of Friedrich Schlegel's Poetic Irony,” Germanic Re- | | | ings of the word irony, including the Greek and the Latin. |
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| | Irony |
| | In literature, irony is a deliberate gap between the language used and what is being discussed. | | | There are four major types of irony: verbal, dramatic, situational, and cosmic. | | | Such irony is often so severe that it causes people to question God and see the universe as hostile. |
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http://www.delmar.edu/engl/wrtctr/handouts/irony.htm
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| | irony - definition of irony by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | It is part of the general irony of things that in life's crises a man's good qualities are often the ones that help him least, if indeed they do not actually turn treacherously and fight against him. | | | Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" Richard Kain. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/irony
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| | The UVic Writer's Guide: Irony |
| | Dramatic irony can produce comic effects when the ignorance of characters merely makes them appear ridiculous, or when the unintended results of their actions are humorous. | | | Narrow conventional morality also biases Nelly Dean, the narrator of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847); and in Shakespeare's As You Like It, the continuing disguise of Rosalind as the young man Ganymede leads to multiple levels of dramatic and structural irony. | | | Dramatic Irony is a situation in which the reader or audience knows more about the immediate circumstances or future events of a story than a character within it; thus the audience is able to see a discrepancy between characters' perceptions and the reality they face. |
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| | Irony - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com |
| | Irony is common in English, especially in humour. | | | Home > Reference > Glossary > I > Irony | | | When the speaker or writer says one thing but wants you to understand something different, they are being ironic. |
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| | IRONY |
| | dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know. | | | verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else. | | | irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results. |
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| | Seeking Irony |
| | This is one of the pictures I took of the groom's adorable nephew while holding him. | | | That's what I'll be doing on Saturday, as long as nothing major comes up. | | | I'm not a poetry fan, but these people are just too fun to resist, even if there's poetry involved. |
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http://www.seeking_irony.blogspot.com
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| | ► Irony: The definition of irony and/or ironic - A dictionary definition, a personal denotation and examples of ... |
| | Further investigation revealed that the son [who turned out to be Ronald Opus] had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder through his father's consistent use of a shotgun in anger to threaten his mother. | | | Expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense. | | | Next time you think about using the word or any word formed from the root word "Irony," think of this story and you may not use incorrectly, as most people do. |
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| | www.myspace.com/irony |
| | Irony also played a few more shows that including a show in Alliance with Palm Dell and Epiphany. | | | Currently the band is working on new material for their full-length album which should be released the Spring of 2006. | | | During this time the bands close friend Daniel Brown was invited to the band, and played first show with him just soon after. |
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| | Urban Dictionary: Irony |
| | Irony of Fate - The concept that the Gods, Fates, etc. are toying with humans for amusement by using irony. | | | Beethoven's loss of hearing is a famous example; one would expect a composer to be able to hear his compositions, but fate denied him that ability. | | | Socratic irony - When someone pretends to be naive about a certain subject, and uses his questions about it to point out a flaw in the established belief. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Irony
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| | virtuaLit: Elements of Poetry |
| | This is sarcasm, which is one way to achieve irony. | | | A woman might say to her husband ironically, "I never know what you're going to say," when in fact she always knows what he will say. | | | Irony is generally more restrained than sarcasm, even though the effect might be the same. |
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| | Salon Books "For Common Things" |
| | Seinfeld is "irony incarnate," Purdy warns, and as Auden said of Yeats, Seinfeld has become his admirers. | | | Purdy, unfortunately, has not dislodged irony with faith. | | | Irony is bad, Purdy explains, because "the point of irony is a quiet refusal to believe in the depth of relationships, the sincerity of motivation, or the truth of speech." Sounds pretty diabolical, this irony, which Purdy has a little trouble defining. |
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| | irony. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The user of irony assumes that his reader or listener understands the concealed meaning of his statement. | | | Thus, in Shakespeare& Julius Caesar, when Mark Antony refers in his funeral oration to Brutus and his fellow assassins as “honorable men” he is really saying that they are totally dishonorable and not to be trusted. | | | The most sustained example of dramatic irony is undoubtedly Sophocles&; Oedipus Rex, in which Oedipus searches to find the murderer of the former king of Thebes, only to discover that it is himself, a fact the audience has known all along. |
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| | irony |
| | the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend. |
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| | Self-irony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jean Baudrillard uses irony, and in fact a substantive amount of self-irony, in his trilogy "The Gulf War will never take place"(Baudrillard, Jean : Selected Writings, Stanford University Press, 2001). | | | The procedure uses the language device of irony, by concealing the real meaning of the point made, by expressing a contradictious meaning. | | | By self-ridiculing oneself by the use of irony, a person can humble her/himself, but still not to the level of self-humiliation. |
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| | What is irony? |
| | This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003. | | | Irony is a trope in which an expression is used in such a fashion as to convey the opposite meaning of what is expressed. | | | Saying you’re a pretty sight to a mud-splattered child is an illustration of irony. |
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| | Salon.com Life Irony is dead! Long live irony! |
| | The word seems to represent, in the current public discourse, the nihilistic shrug of an irritatingly shallow smartass. | | | Irony makes us wary and abashed in our belief." | | | No, they were us minus the ability to feel and learn, their faulty personal navigations systems throwing them hilariously onto the rocks, unable to steer clear of the reefs even in a sea so placid that "nothing happens." |
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| | irony |
| | Irony of one word, often derisively through patent contradiction. | | | Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. | | | Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest. |
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http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/I/irony.htm
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| | Web Dice |
| | Irony Games Discount Books offers a discount on many RPG/Fantasy books and helps support Irony Games. | | | The fastest way to roll anything from one die to an entire encounter. | | | Its many options let you customize your dice rolls for anything from tossing coins to RPG character creation. |
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| | Technorati Tag: Irony |
| | Search or read full text, highlight, cite and auto-create bibliographies and get a personal bookshelf. | | | A tag is like a subject or category. | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged Irony. |
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| | Flickr: Photos tagged with irony |
| | Legends-Inc Watches offers a huge range of the latest Swatch irony watches.... | | | Explore and refine irony photos with our clustery goodness! | | | You can assign as many tags as you wish to each photo. |
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| | Conversational Reading: Irony |
| | So...which non-fiction work has "captured" the age (presently ignoring the fact that if that genre is so "instant" one wonders how it managed)? | | | Now excuse me while I use both hands to keep my head from exploding. | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Irony: |
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