IRONY AND ITS DISCONTENT In: G. Steen & D. Schram (eds.) Psychology and Sociology of Literature
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The deceitful nature of irony has not been lost on artists and writers, who have manipulated it for various purposes, most notably, the insertion of novel, dissident ideas (Giora, submitted; Walker 1991). Irony's indirectness acts as a shield which masks a genuine intent deemed risky by the speaker. Consider the following poem by the Israeli poet, Yona Wallach (1997), which has been taken literally by most readers, but which, in fact, assumes a guise man's voice, language, and fantasies to convey subversiveness:
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تاریخ انتشار 2004