Despite the fashionable standing of irony in studies of modern literature and its occasional application to medieval studies in a number of recent works, no sustained analysis of this phenomenon has yet been attempted for medieval literature.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The possibilities of irony in courtly literature; 3. Irony and chivalry; 4. Irony and love; 5. Irony and narrative technique; 6. Verbal irony; 7. Irony of the narrator; 8. Dramatic irony; 9. The irony of values; 10. Structural irony; 11. The reasons for irony in the medieval romance; Bibliography; Index of passages discussed; General index.
