Bibliography, Chaucer, Cobwebs

Pearsall, Derek, "Epidemic Irony in Modern Approaches to the Canterbury Tales," in P. Boitani and A. Torti, eds., Medieval and Pseudo-Medieval Literature. Tübingen: Narr, 1984.

Instead of Answering, Citing

I've been gathering my thoughts on post-irony, but as I seem to be that type of writer least amicable to blog-writing (i.e. the hording-every-thought to be finally-and-exactly-expressed type) I'm going to just pass along a great article by David Foster Wallace (hereafter in my entries "DFW," or perhaps "Wallace"). The article's going on twenty years old now but I still think it has some interesting ideas on irony in American society and entertainment (read: TV). Though it may not be the easiest thing to follow on an LCD (or perhaps CRT) screen (and is reprinted in DFW wonderful collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again) here we go: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5495526_ITM