4. Novels of (De)formation and Ironic Autobiographies

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One: Rhetorologies
5. Introduction 11
6. 1. Successful Reconciliation 15
7. 2. A Desire for Art 23
8. 3. Mad Consciousness 35
9. Part Two: Ethica
10. Introduction 49
11. 1. The Irony of Evil 50
12. 2. Must We Aestheticize? 58
13. 3. Masking Irony 70
14. 4. The Melancholic Subject 82
15. 5. The Joy of Dissimulation 99
16. Part Three: Novel – Modernity – Irony
17. Introduction 113
18. 1. The Philosophy of History and the Poetics of Genre 114
19. 2. The Language of the Novel 125
20. 3. From Micro-irony (Quotation) to Macro-irony (Genre) 140
21. 4. Novels of (De)formation and Ironic Autobiographies 153
22. Part Four: Ironic Politics
23. Introduction 169
24. 1. The Struggle with Irony 172
25. 2. Thesis and Antithesis 188
26. 3. The Irony of the Law (Kafka and Deleuze ) 199
27. Bibliography 213
28. Index 227