Behind the Irony Curtain 17
Gets the Ax ,” Japanese Times ( April 20,1999 ).
14 John L . Smith , '‘ Guillotine Falls , Lenin Loses Head at Mandalay Bay ,” Las Vegas Review Journal ( March 26,1999 ).
“ Controversial Lenin Head Disappears from Mandalay Bay ,” Las Vegas Review Journal ( May 18 , 1999 ); Restaurant Offering $ 5000 Reward for Return of Lenin ’ s Head ,” Las Vegas Review Journal ( May 17 , 1999 ); “ A Total Head Case ,” Las Vegas Life ( June 1999 ): 15 ; and “ Restaurant Still Looking for Head of Lenin Statue ,” Las Vegas Review Journal ( May 26 , 1999 ).
“ Lenin ’ s Head Found at Local Thrift Store ,” Las Vegas Sun ( June 8 , 1999 ); and “ Lenin ’ s Head Returns to Mandalay Bay ,” Las Vegas Review Journal ( June 8,1999 ).
Scott Dickensheets , “ Lenin Statue : From Russia with Irony ,” Las Vegas Sun ( March 7 , 1999 ); and John Katsilometes , “ Lenin Statue Stays A-head of the Game ,” Las Vegas Sun ( June 13,1999 ).
18 JA . K . Thomson , Irony : An Historical Introduction ( London : George Allen and
Unwin , 1926 ): 235 .
19 Andrew Wright , “ Irony and Fiction ,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 12
( September 1953 ): 111-18 .
20 A . R . Thompson , The Dry Mock ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1948 ).
21 Guido Almansi , L Tronee de L ’ ironic ( Urbino : Centro Intemazionale di Semiotica e di
Linguistica , 1979 ).
22 See Wayne Booth , A Rhetoric o f Irony ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1974 );
Norman Knox , The Word Irony and its Context ( Durham , N . C .: Duke University Press , 1961 ); A . E . Dyson , The Crazy Fabric : Essays in Irony ( London : MacMillan and Co ., 1959 ); G . G . Sedgewick , Of Irony ( Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 1948 ); Soren Kierkegaard , The Concept o f Irony , translated by Lee Capel ( Bloomington : Indiana University Presss , 1965 ); Richard Rorty , Contingency , Irony and Solidarity ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989 ); Lilian Furst , Fictions of Romantic Irony ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1984 ); Katharina Barbe , Irony in Context ( Amsterdam : John Benjamin Publishing Co ., 1995 ); and Joseph Dane , The Critical Mythology of Irony ( Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1991 ).
23 D . C . Muecke , The Compass o f Irony ( London : Methuen and Co ., 1969 ); Irony
( London : Methuen and Co ., 1970 ); and Irony and the Ironic ( London : Methuen and Co ., 1982 ).
24 Norman Knox , “ Irony ,” Dictionary of the History of Ideas , Vol . 11 ( New York :
Charles Scribner , 1973 ): 626-34 .
25 Charles Glicksberg , The Ironic Vision in Modern Literature ( The Hague : Martmus
Nijhoff , 1969 ). John Seery , Political Returns ( Boulder : Westview Press , 1990 ); and Seery and Darnel
Conway , editors , The Politics of Irony ( New York : St . Martins Press , 1992 ).
27 ^ Ibid .
28 Paul Fussell , The Great War and Modern Memory ( London : Oxford University Press ,
1975 ). 29
Adele Barker , Consuming Russia ( Durham , N . C .: Duke University Press , 1999 ).