Irony at Work

How do elements of irony work in the novel? (About this list: a paragraph describing the thinking behind this list)

 

Primary Texts:

Albert Camus. The Stranger. (1942, France)   

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. *Don Quixjote de la Mancha. (1605, Spain)

Gabriel García Márquez. Cien años desoledad. (1967, Colombia)   

Joseph Heller. *Catch 22. (1961, United States)

Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. (1931, United Kingdom)

Javier Marías. Corazón tan blanco. (1992, Spain)

George Orwell. Animal Farm. (1945, United Kingdom)   

Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. (1818, United Kingdom)

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels. (1726, Great Britain) 

Miguel de Unamuno. Niebla. (1914, Spain)

Secondary Texts:

Mikhail M. Bakhtin. “Discourse inthe Novel” in The Dialogic Imagination.

Wayne C. Booth. “True Novels Must Be Realistic” and “All Authors Should Be Objective” in Rhetoric ofFiction.

Peter Brooks. Reading for the Plot.