A Rhetoric of Irony

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A Rhetoric of Irony[1] is a book about irony by American literary critic Wayne Booth. Booth argues that in addition to forms of literary irony, there are ironies that lack a stable referent.

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  1. ^ Booth, Wayne C. A Rhetoric of Irony. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.