1st Edition
Isn't it Ironic? Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture
Introduction: Isn’t it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture
Ian Kinane
1. Peeling The Onion: Pop Culture Satire in the Writing Classroom
Matthew Leporati and Rob Jacklosky
2. For Your Eyes Only?: Brexit, Bond, and British Meme Culture
Ian Kinane
3. ‘About 136’: Bob Dylan’s Democratic Irony
Simon Stow
4. New Irony and Old Sincerity: How the Metamodern and the Post-secular Meet in Indie Rock
Mary W. McCampbell
5. Sarcastic Turbulence: Irony, Seriousness, and Ambiguity in Black Metal Music Culture
Owen Coggins
6. Funny People: Comedic Performance and Irony in Knocked Up and This is 40
Brian Brems
7. Irony and Iron Man: The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Postmodern Rejection of Values
Camilo Peralta
8. ‘We Could All Do with Some School’: The Miseducation of Elizabeth and Charles in Netflix’s The Crown
Elizabeth Currin and Chad E. Harris
9. Human After All: The Irony of Black Mirror
Thomas Britt
Biography
Ian Kinane is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the author of Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence and Theorising Literary Islands, the editor of Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade, and the co-editor of Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place.
