...which he means the rhetorical movement where language itself becomes an object of reflection and where 'the sensed inadequacy of language to the full representation of its object becomes perceived as a problem' (1978: 207). Through irony, one comes to understand that the notion...

...post-Romantic irony among historians in the later part of the nineteenth century. Hayden White describes how "the sensed inadequacy of language to the full representation of its object [came to be] perceived as a problem" (1978, p. 207). A response to this perception may be seen in the...

...word, but even beyond that, to that terrifying moment when the world had no word. As White tells us, "Irony represents a stage in the evolution of consciousness...object of reflection, and the sensed inadequacy of langauge to the full representation of its object has become perceived as a problem."93 Take that statement...