Irony as echoic mention: forms of echoes in concrete poetry Cover Image

Ironie jako echoic mention: podoby ozvěn v konkrétní poezii
Irony as echoic mention: forms of echoes in concrete poetry

Author(s): Julie Koblížková Wittlichová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Irony; concrete poetry; experimental poetry; echoic mention; Dan Sperber; Deidre Wilson

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with irony as a basic formal principal of concrete poetry. Based onSperber and Wilson’s theory of irony as echoic mention, it approaches concrete poemas a poetic form composed by two elements, which ironically mention one another. Theultimate target of this irony may be language or literature in general.

  • Issue Year: 12/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 90-117
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Czech