The great Japanese ironist Jun’ichirō Tanizaki was born in 1886 into an old Tokyo merchant family. His father was a ...

Later in the park, he was a boy—sentimental, vaguely mystical. As we walked sordid streets, he was an ironist. He was hard and ruthless. At that moment, I began to love him. I realized that he ...

technically astute director with an ironist’s eye can subvert surface storytelling through composition, color, music, and mise-en-scéne. Sirk, whose great theme was the way American society imprisons ...

Vizenor's latest (after Shrouds of White Earth) is an ironist's account of the pretense of modern academia as seen through the lens of the Native American Indian trickster tradition. The narrative ...

Friedrich Nietzsche drew no distinction between Socrates and Plato in his diagnosis of the origin of philosophy and metaphysics. My argument will lean heavily on the scholarship of Gregory Vlastos to ...

of Puget Sound) develops an alternative to standard doctrinal and ironist readings of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra by revealing how its literary structure expresses the philosophical ...