2015-16 Pomona College Catalog

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ENGL170M PO - Irony in the Public Sphere

When Offered: Spring 2017.
Instructor(s): K. Dettmar
Credit: 1

Since the 1830s, two parallel developments in irony have combined to create the kinds of large-scale public misreading of irony seen in countless contemporary examples. We’ll survey the state of irony theory, as well as the current and past states of ironic practice, striving to complicate the traditional understanding of irony. Prerequisite: ENGL 067 PO. (TH, H4, H5, 170)