IRONY IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF REXHEP QOSJA
IRONY IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF REXHEP QOSJA
Author(s): Besnik JahaSubject(s): Albanian Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Bard Books
Keywords: irony; grotesque; narrator; style; figure; short story;
Summary/Abstract: It is almost a consistent practice of Rexhep Qosja to offer multiple possibilities of reading, depending on the reader’s desire, whether as a whole or in parts. The author allows for reading either independently or interconnectedly, generally or partially. Qosja’s literary creativity abounds with literary figures, skilfully constructed and always functional. The most frequently used figures in his work are irony, metaphor, allegory, apophasis, metonymy, paradox, comparison, enumeration, anaphora, epithet, erotema, antithesis, rhetorical question, repetition, euphemism, periphrasis, litotes, eclecticism, and many others, which, in his works, always appear in aesthetic function and in service of the intended idea. We will discuss these figures throughout the most translated novel of his Death Comes to Me from Such Eyes (org. Vdekja më vjen prej syve të tillë).
Journal: SYMBOL
- Issue Year: 2025
- Issue No: 35
- Page Range: 51-64
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
