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19 juillet 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.30527
- isbn: 9782868473851
- eisbn: 9782753545670
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Margaret Atwood postmodernisme utopie dystopie littérature de langue anglaise LIT004080 Literature (General) DSBCiter ce document
Marlene Dolitsky, « Irony in offred’s tale », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.30527
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In answer to questions, such as “How come you’re such a pessimist ?” and “Why don’t you have happier endings ?” Atwood answers indirectly, “Because I’m writing in the ironic mode” (1982 :406). Irony is what characterizes the tone and texture of The Handmaid’s Tale. As a dystopia, it is, by definition, ironic in nature, for, like all dystopias, it is “an ironic social vision” (Frye 1990 :309) whose opposite is an already mentioned social norm. On the lower level is a vision of fulfilled second...