Abstract
This essay explores the concept of irony and the ways in which this mode is reflected in such distant forms of aesthetic expression as literature, music and visual arts, especially within the postmodern era which not only embraces, but also intensifies and influences this long-established stylistic technique. With this aim, this essay takes Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22 as a representative example of the postmodern literature, as well as Kurt Vonnegut’s graphic Trout in Cohoes, Rupert Holms’s The Pina Colada Song and Leroy Anderson’s The Waltzing Cat as corresponding examples of postmodern visual and music arts respectively. The theoretical framework is based on Wayne Booth’s concept of irony, and also includes humor as an accompanying element of ironic expression.
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