Sentence examples for narrative irony from inspiring English sources

The stories, set in the 19th century and concerned with aristocracy, breeding and legitimacy, and self-delusion, combine romantic and supernatural elements with subtle narrative irony.

In terms of narrative irony, Larraín takes all of these constituent elements as far as they can go, to an end point of pessimism.

Focusing on two iconic passages – the would-be dramatic Cossack wedding scene with which the story opens and the description of the Dnepr that acts as a lyrical interlude half-way through – the present article aims to show that Strshnaia mest'; is a work of sustained narrative irony shot through with subtle and sophisticated humour.

In each lesson the wilder rhetorical thrusts are slyly deflected by audience members, friends and relatives who stand up to challenge the speaker; the thick atmosphere of passionate conviction that surrounds Costello is lightened, somewhat, by dark twinklings of narrative irony.

The contemporary poet Matthew Arnold was early in observing the narrative irony of the poem: he found Ulysses' speech "the least plain, the most un-Homeric, which can possibly be conceived.

He traces Sōseki's complex and contradictory character, offering rigorous close readings of Sōseki's groundbreaking experiments with narrative strategies, irony, and multiple points of view as well as recounting excruciating hospital stays and recurrent attacks of paranoid delusion.

In this act of impersonation, through the almost formal stiffness of the first-person narrative, the writer's irony can play around Rosamund and get hold of her type, without diminishing the centrality and open-endedness of her experience.

Binyon, with characteristic control of irony and narrative information, remarks that Küchelbecker 'would have been better advised, in view of future events, to have taken the post of professor of Russian and Slavonic languages at Edinburgh which he had been offered that spring'.

The irony of a narrative rooted in the distant past and the distant future is majestic.

Many readers (including me) first knew her through "The Glass Essay," a 38-page multipart lyric narrative in 1995's "Glass, Irony and God".

His directing style is characterized by long, meditative takes and by an emotional detachment from subject matter that serves to heighten the irony of the narrative.