English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1240 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romantic Irony
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The idea
Romantic irony, a term credited to Friedrich Schlegel and the early German Romantics, names a self-conscious stance in which the work recognizes its own limits, striving toward truth and meaning without ever fully grasping them. It differs from ordinary verbal irony.
In practice
A work aware of its own limits.
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