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In the same vein as all those bankers who loved Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, or 80s geezers who identified with Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney, the targets of certain artistic assaults can unconsciously ironise their way towards obliviousness.

Another theory is provided by Peter M. Sacks, who argues that the language of the play is marked by "an artificial and heavily emblematic style, and above all a revoltingly grotesque series of horrors which seem to have little function but to ironise man's inadequate expressions of pain and loss".

We ironize status even as we crave it.

He would not ironize; paradoxically, in his very refusal of hidden meaning, he outflanks most of his contemporaries in striking resonances from the depths.

Mr. Kirsch makes a similar argument about John Berryman's harrowingly intimate "Dream Songs," the strongest of which did not so much transcribe his own traumatic experiences as transform and ironize them.

Felman has been influential in the fields of psychoanalytic literary criticism, performativity theory, feminism, Holocaust testimony, and other areas, though her writings frequently question, ironize, or test the limits of the very critical methods being employed.

IT almost seems at times as if Norman were purposely making his characters puppetlike and his situations strained in order to emphasize the sense of artifice and spectacle, to ironize this question of the deadly illusion of art.