On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:49:26 -0600 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>I can't tell whether your examples are examples of irony or of
>something else until you first tell me what irony is.
We might as well go all the way and say that *any* concept is impossible to define. Doesn't Derrida theorize something along these lines? Words are only defined by reference to other words.
My point is this: you recognize irony when you see it (right???). I mean, nobody is going to interpret A Modest Proposal as meaning that the Irish really should've eaten their kids. And nobody is going to doubt that Malthus' Essay really is an argument for population control.
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