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S/LI/437. The pleasure of misunderstandings: narrative irony in Homer, Chaucer and Shakespeare

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2010
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Using Odyssey, The Wife of Bath's Tale and Hamlet as examples, the type of irony that involves a discrepancy in understanding between character and audience is discussed. The paper cites pity and fear as the reason our superior perspective encourages us to feel pleasure in the work as we watch or read others misunderstand people and situations. Though at the same time we fear the truth of the imitation.

 

KEYWORDS: Literature, Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Odyssey, Wife of Bath, Hamlet, irony, dramatic irony, tragic irony!,

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