Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The possibilities of irony in courtly literature
- 3 Irony and chivalry
- 4 Irony and love
- 5 Irony and narrative technique
- 6 Verbal irony
- 7 Irony of the narrator
- 8 Dramatic irony
- 9 The irony of values
- 10 Structural irony
- 11 The reasons for irony in the medieval romance
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
Abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The possibilities of irony in courtly literature
- 3 Irony and chivalry
- 4 Irony and love
- 5 Irony and narrative technique
- 6 Verbal irony
- 7 Irony of the narrator
- 8 Dramatic irony
- 9 The irony of values
- 10 Structural irony
- 11 The reasons for irony in the medieval romance
- Bibliography
- Index of passages discussed
- General index
Summary
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- Chapter
- Information
- Irony in the Medieval Romance , pp. viii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979