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Review: Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition by Erica Weitzman
Linden, Ari
Linden, Ari
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In the closing chapter of Irony’s Antics, Erica Weitzman tries to steer her readers away from three misreadings of irony that have informed most of its modern interpretations: the “utopian/romantic,” the “melancholic/modernist,” and the “sentimental/humanist” (187). Each of these variants is, for Weitzman, decidedly anti-ironic and therefore antithetical to the modern tradition of “comic irony” that she illuminates in select works by Robert Walser, Franz Kafka, and Josepth Roth. Combining philosophical erudition with close and considered literary readings, Weitzman insists that what is genuinely modern—and genuinely ironic—about these works is their ludic and boundless self-consciousness, the most faithful embodiment of irony as such.
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Linden, Ari. Review: Erica Weitzman, Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern 2015). The German Quarterly (90:2, 2017): 244-246., which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/gequ.12034. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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Linden, Ari. Review: Erica Weitzman, Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern 2015). The German Quarterly (90:2, 2017): 244-246.