The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony by D.J. Enright

The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony

D.J. Enright

185 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

politics funny reflective slow-paced
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When Jonathan Swift suggested in 1729, in his pamphlet A Modest Proposal, that the Irish might survive overpopulation if only they could be persuaded to eat their own babies, the Irishman was employing that favorite tool of writers and wits: irony...

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