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Irony exists only in the eye of the ironologist, argues the author of this sweeping, deconstructive survey. . . . Dane is certainly right that the strategies for identifying and dealing with 'what cannot be taken at face value' have varied from age to age and school to school. -- Virginia Quarterly Review

<p> Irony exists only in the eye of the ironologist, argues the author of this sweeping, deconstructive survey. . . . Dane is certainly right that the strategies for identifying and dealing with 'what cannot be taken at face value' have varied from age to age and school to school. -- Virginia Quarterly Review

Dane provides the reader with a clear framework and a historical background against which an understanding of irony in all its shades and nuances begins to form.|Irony exists only in the eye of the ironologist, argues the author of this sweeping, deconstructive survey... Dane is certainly right that the strategies for identifying and dealing with 'what cannot be taken at face value' have varied from age to age and school to school.

Dane provides the reader with a clear framework and a historical background against which an understanding of irony in all its shades and nuances begins to form. |Irony exists only in the eye of the ironologist, argues the author of this sweeping, deconstructive survey. . . . Dane is certainly right that the strategies for identifying and dealing with `what cannot be taken at face value' have varied from age to age and school to school.

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JOSEPH A. DANE is a professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is the author of many books, including most recentlyThe Long and the Short of It: A Practical Guide to European Versification Systems, and Out of Sorts: Typography and Print Culture.

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