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Item Irony in Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad(Department of English, 2009) Bista, SabitraAlexander Pope’s The Dunciad is considered by many as one of the masterpiece of piece of literary creations in English. It covers almost all elements of irony, personal, social, political and intellects, as well. Composed in order to settle his personal debts on hack writers of his time, Pope’s The Dunciad went on to become one of the finest literary creations of his time and continues to have equal impact to date. It covers a simple story line upon the death of the King of Dunces, an assembly of the dunce organize a competition to elect their king and every character of dunce presented in the poem, is an allegorical figure to an old literary enemy of Pope. The poem is a mockery on the contemporary intellectuals of his time, who claimed themselves as innovative writers, and in the process, Pope goes on to present the social and political scenario of his time.Item Irony in Benedict’s Sand Queen(Faculty of Art in English, 2018-02) Pandey, DigvijyThis research is an attempt to show irony in Helen Benedict’s Sand Queen. Benedict uses irony in order to challenge war-mongering American ideology and raises question on brutality of American soldiers by attacking elevated rules and regulations in army and imparts the message that strict military norms and value should be go through the process of reformation. Moreover, through Kate and Naema, this research paper confronts on Orientalistic prospective of America and takes the departure from the main stream feminism as well in order to glorify Islamic feminism. To accomplish the task, the researcher takes theoretical insight of irony given by Claire Colebrook. According to her, irony is a rhetorical device that is used in order to attack grand claim and meta-narrative, questioning elite values, disrupting norms and constructing higher ideas and giving place to marginalize value and point of view beyond ordinary speech. By using this rhetorical tool, the researcher comes with the finding of ironical reversal as the protagonist who from the beginning glorifies the war and describes her act as noble and heroic one ultimately suffers from trauma. This sudden transformation in Kate shows the disparity between appearance and reality that functions as irony. Hence, by using irony this research paper attacks warmongering American ideology, eminent norms in military force, Orientalistic American prospective, radical feminist and comes in to the conclusion that the horror of war victimizes all.Item Negation of Archetypal Hero in Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer(Department of English, 2022) Adhikari, GopalThis research paper investigates Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Sympathizer, which counteracts the concept of archetypal heroes by depicting the protagonist in his narrative. In the novel, the historical interaction between the protagonist and the Vietnamese-American war situation brings a different perspective to the war and its consequences. The unnamed protagonist is a narrator. He is an Americanized Vietnamese with double mind. By using such protagonist, Nguyen subverts the portrayal of the archetypal hero in the novel. It seeks the reason about narrator's presentation is different from the heroic characteristics of traditional novels. This research paper uses Northrop Frye's five heroic model concepts clarified in "Anatomy of Criticism" and portrays the protagonist as a modern hero to prove Fyre's ironic intentions and proves Thanh's hero as an antihero. His modern heroes are lower than normal people, so they are anti-heroes. The protagonist does not portray his heroism, and readers feel the need for heroism. Instead, he gets rid of the difficult situation of heroism that people expected. The captain as the protagonist is similar to Northrop Frye's satirical hero, an anti-hero. In addition, this paper also discusses Joseph Campbell's concept of the journey of archetypal heroes called 'monomyth' by world mythology. Nguyen views the concept of war situation from a different perspective through his anti-hero.Item Politics of Irony in Adichie’s Americanah(2017) Khadka, PrakashThis research analyzes Adichie’s Americanah to expose upon irony about the Western behavior as presented in the novel. Likewise this research also focuses on constrast between ideal and practical democratic norms. The characters of this story are migrated to America for better life. They are migrated there because their own native country traps cultural violence, lack of infrastructure, political instability, low economic condition, corruption and unemployment which are the main cause of migration. However this migration opens wide range of possibilities in their life prove the contention. This research uses ideas from Linda Hutcheon and Wayne Booth. So all the characters in the novel suffer physically and mentally as immigrants in America. This project explores the condition of Nigerian people in general and Adichie’s characters in particular who suffer both in and outside Nigeria. She cannot entertain herself and finally becomes unbearable that leads to her own destruction resulting into politics of irony.Item Politics of Irony in Burgess's A Clockwork Orange(Faculty of Art in English, 2018-02) Giri, ArjunThis research paper examines Burgess's politics behind using radical irony in A Clockwork Orange. It explores the ways of subverting high values and reinforcing marginalized ones and also investigates the resistance of working class people against bourgeois discourse. The ultra-violence is presented ironically in order to bring stated brutality of Alex, the protagonist and unstated brutality of the state. This paper brings the theoretical concept from Linda Hutcheon and Claire Colebrook in order to investigate Burgess's politics of making radical use of irony. Hutcheon's transideological and subversive functions of irony are applicable in this research. By using Hutcheon's concept, it finds out the Burgess's politics of irony that helps him to subvert the high discourse, values, and hypocrisy and at the same time to reinforce the marginalized discourse and values. Thus, it is concluded that irony helps Burgess to make marginalized people aware by unmasking complexity and multiplicity of high culture.Item The Politics of Irony in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help(Department of English, 2023) BC, Kumari SaratiThis thesis explores the politics of irony in Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help. It explores the way of subverting high values and reinforcing marginalized ones and also explores the resistance of working-class people. Stockett presents problems of racial segregation and discrimination, combined with occurrences of unjust treatment and both verbal and physical mistreatment. This paper brings the theoretical concept from Linda Hutcheon and Wyne C Booth in order to investigate Stockett's politics of making radical use of irony. Hutcheon's trans-ideological and subversive functions of irony are applicable to this research. By using Hutcheon's concept, it finds out Stockett’s politics of irony that helps her to subvert the high discourse, values, and hypocrisy and at the same time to reinforce the marginalized discourse and values. Thus, it is concluded that irony helps Stocket to make marginalized people aware by unmasking the complexity and multiplicity of high culture. Keywords: Irony, trans-ideological, subversive, reinforcing, context, resistance