Съдържание:
  • What is romantic irony?
  • Eternal mobility : Diderot's Jacques le fataliste
  • Self-reflexive irony in Musset's Namouna
  • Pathedy : the hero as fool in Stendhal's Le rouge et le noir
  • The earnest but skeptical questor : Gautier's Albertus and Mademoiselle de Maupin
  • The coexistence of contraries : Baudelaire's La fanfarlo and Les fleurs du mal
  • Ambivalent and uncertain irony in Flaubert's Madame Bovary
  • The multiple ironies of black humor : Michaux's Plume, "Clown"
  • Intellectual gamesmanship : Queneau's Le chiendent
  • The fullness of chaos : Beckett's trilogy
  • Appendix:
  • Romantic irony and the novel : Friedrich von Schlegel and Mikhail Bakhtin.