The Comedy of Romantic Irony

By: Morton Gurewitch

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Paperback | 1 June 2002

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Few literary concepts evoke the kind of perplexity engendered by a more than passing acquaintanceship with romantic irony. In Comedy of Romantic Irony, Morton Gurewitch argues that European romantic irony, shorn of the excessively capacious and somewhat nebulous aspects of German romantic-ironic theory, is essentially a comedy of ambivalence, a comic tug-of-war between genuine romantic idealism and authentic antiromantic disenchantment. Gurewitch claims, moreover, that European romantic irony, which is found in writers ranging from Byron and Heine to Flaubert and Dostoevsky, is romanticism's unique contribution to the history of literary comedy.

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It is impossible for anyone to read this book without coming away with a far greater grasp of the elusive topic of romantic irony itself....Anyone undertaking a specific or general study of the elusive topic of romantic irony will greatly benefit from reading this book. * European Romantic Review *

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