The Irony Club

The Ironist is an open forum to encourage discussion and reflection upon the written word and the world around us to promote critical analysis. Irony, “the recognition of incongruities” (Cleanth Brooks), is a tool that permits differing perspectives to be considered about a passage or event. Irony is notoriously hard to define, and its importance in a passage can vary upon the reader’s own views. Hence the purpose of our blog/newsletter. By encouraging constructive criticism and discussion, we hope complex issues can be better understood, or appreciated, by exploring ideas presented by the use, intended or otherwise, of irony.