Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present:
-Explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions of irony
-traces the use of the concept throuight history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the posmodern era
-looks closely at the work of Socrates and more contemnporary theorists such as Jaceus DErrida and Gilles Deleuze
-applies theories of irony to literary texts