[lbo-talk] Reversing common wisdom on pornography

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Aug 27 11:22:55 PDT 2006


info at pulpculture.org wrote:
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> You might want to read the post again. Seriously.

Kelley, Mixing irony with exposition often misfires. Since there is no syntactical or lexical marker for irony, some writers have recently quite seriously questioned whether it even exists or not. Recognition of irony _always_ depends on something akin to mind-reading: i.e. one must know in advance the principles that the writer repudiates. Remember what happened to Defoe?

Carrol



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