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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

G. G. Sedgewick, Of Irony Especially in Drama (Toronto,
1948), contains an historically oriented review of the mean-
ings of the word irony, including the Greek and the Latin.
N. Knox, The Word “Irony” and Its Context, 1500-1755
(Durham, N.C., 1961), deals with developments in England.
R. Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism, 5 vols. (New
Haven, 1955—), gives consistent attention to irony as a topic
in European literary criticism, with full references. D. C.
Muecke, The Compass of Irony (London, 1969), contains
an excellent bibliography. Also: W. C. Booth, The Rhetoric
of Fiction
(Chicago, 1961); C. I. Glicksberg, The Ironic
Vision in Modern Literature
(The Hague, 1969), to be used
with caution; R. Immerwahr, “The Subjectivity or Objec-
tivity of Friedrich Schlegel's Poetic Irony,” Germanic Re-
view,
26 (1951), 173-91; V. Jankélévitch, L'Ironie (Paris,
1936; rev. ed., 1950), a suggestive study; S. Kierkegaard,
The Concept of Irony, trans. L. M. Capel (New York, 1965);
G. E. Mueller, “Solger's Aesthetics—A Key to Hegel (Irony
and Dialectic),” in Corona, ed. A. Schirokauer and W.
Paulsen (Durham, N.C., 1941), pp. 212-27; I. Strohschneider-
Kohrs, DieRomantische Ironie in Theorie und Gestaltung
(Tübingen, 1960); A. R. Thompson, The Dry Mock: A Study
of Irony in Drama
(Berkeley, 1948); David Worcester, The
Art of Satire
(Cambridge, Mass., 1940).

NORMAN D. KNOX

[See also Allegory; Art and Play; Comic Sense; Rhetoric
after Plato; Satire; Style; Tragic Sense.]