The Rhetorical Resource Irony (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798241464347)

Problem: Deficiency in the assertive understanding of the irony phenomenon, in the reading of literary and philosophical texts, and deficiency in the production of one's own discourses. There is clear confusion and lack of conceptual completeness in all periods. Most people confuse irony with crude sarcasm, with lies, or with mere semantic inversion. This generates interpretive mistakes, rhetorical manipulation, and inability to appreciate Socratic and Voltairian irony.
Resolution: A complete academic thesis on irony is offered to define its Greek origin, its broad definitions and additions to the definition, its types, its uses (playful, true and deceptive) and its manifestations in literature (Voltaire in Candide or Optimism, Memnon and Escarmentado). It includes corpus analysis, historical contextualization and Aristotelian method. In this, the universal corpus is Socratic irony, the irony phenomenon is delimited to Socrates. The breadth of the definition is divided into many ways such as romantic, tragic, comic stable and unstable, character, plot, all based on verbal, situational amplitudes, in fact that such amplitude is observed as an accessory phenomenon, of excess of definition, nevertheless I bring the essence of semantic and dramatic inversions of support as well observed by Muecke, D. C., visionary of this essence.
Justification of the resolution: The book solves because it teaches how to detect and produce irony with rigor. By distinguishing between Socratic irony (which seeks truth through feigned questioning) and sophistic irony (which seeks to win the dispute through ambiguity), the reader acquires rhetorical discernment. Candide's analyses show how Voltaire semantically modifies Leibniz's "best of all worlds" to create humor and criticism, and the reader learns not to confuse fiction with reality. The study of the ancient Greek resource provides the linguistic basis for understanding irony fully and appreciating linguistic phenomena.
The Rhetorical Resource Irony is an academic study that investigates the phenomenon of irony from its origins in Ancient Greece to its manifestations in eighteenth-century literature. The book proposes a distinction between irony as a dialogical rhetorical resource (present in Plato's dialogues) and literary ironies (verbal, situational, dramatic) theorized by contemporary scholars such as D. C. Muecke.
The work analyzes Plato's Euthydemus as a sample of Socratic irony in its original context and then dedicates itself to a detailed examination of Candide or Voltaire's Optimism, in addition to the tales Memnon or Human Wisdom and History of Escarmentado's Travels. From these analyses, the author seeks to understand the semantic modifications that the concept of irony has undergone over time and how it operates in the construction of satire and refined humor.
Written from a real traditional and non-ideological Catholic perspective, the book also offers a historical contextualization of Voltaire's education in Jesuit schools and a particular reading of his relationship with the faith and philosophy of Leibniz. It is not a generic introduction to the subject, but an authorial essay that articulates philology through synchronic, diachronic, and literary analysis.
The book is explicitly written from a traditional Catholic perspective and this perspective may seem to orient the analysis in a way that defends the Church or Voltaire's orthodoxy, sometimes on complex historical issues such as the Inquisition or Protestantism, treated here clearly as an object of derision in keeping with this medieval vision and this is due to the nature of Voltaire's education.
Fans in love with an invented Voltaire may be frightened by the real Voltaire of the author who has read all his works and personal letters. So the Voltaire presented, the real Voltaire, may not be the person a layman would expect, the Voltaire he has heard about.