Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter One. The syntactico-semantic paradigm of irony: and beyond -- Part II -- Chapter One. An ironic twist of a semiotics of narrative: Friedrich Schlegel's Roman -- Chapter Two. Irony the iconoclast: The crisis of representation -- Chapter Three. "Über die Unverständlichkeit": Irony as communicational deconstruction of the semiotic paradigm -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects