Shaken wisdom irony and meaning in postcolonial African fiction /
| Основен автор: | Onyeoziri, Gloria Nne. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2011.
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An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: African ironies
- From rhetoric to semantics
- Interpreting irony
- Pragmatics and Ahmadou Kourouma's (post)colonial state
- Chinua Achebe's Arrow of god and the pragmatics of proverbial irony
- Calixthe Beyala: new conceptions of the ironic voice
- Conclusion: when the handshake has become another thing.