Geographic irony (n.) is a purposefully contradictory description of geography in a literary work which serves to destabilize the reader's image of the text's story world.
Ironic distanciation (n.) is the postmodern habit of voicing sincere feelings through quotation or irony, keeping a knowing distance from them.
Ironic distanciation (n.) is a postmodern tendency to unload emotions to quotations (i.e. 'As the poets would have put it, I love you') that otherwise would be too direct and immediate.
The Irony of history (n.) wills that the very general who bombarded Rome and provoked the June riot is later offered to the people as the General of the Constitution.
The Irony of history (n.) had capitalism, which turned everything into commodities and set free contract in place of custom, make the decisive breach in the arranged marriage that suited it so well.
The Irony of history (n.) condemned the royalists to help overthrow the monarchy they loved and destined them to conserve the republic they hated.
The Irony of history (n.) made the National's old foreign editor France's Foreign Minister, so that he might refute every one of his articles in every one of his dispatches.
Objective irony (n.) is the masses' offhand way of shedding their responsibilities, turning power back to its fantasies and knowledge to its obsessions.
Objective irony (n.) is a gigantic, superior intuition of the illusoriness of the whole process, freeing us from nostalgia for being.
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