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The article explains and discusses how irony can be used in different kinds of artistic media.
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Why is it important?
The article highlights fundamental similarities and differences between verbal and non-verbal media types.
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A more extensive and developed version of the text is published as a book: "Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically", Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press, 2002.
Professor Lars Elleström
Linneuniversitet
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This page is a summary of: Some notes on irony in the visual arts and music: The examples of Magritte and Shostakovich, Word & Image, April 1996, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/02666286.1996.10434249.
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