Some persons embody pure negation while irony posits and denies within one act.

Evidence

In fact, the reader’s initial attentions are less absorbed by matters of social status here taken for granted, or by the struggle for Mademoiselle Carmon’s hand, which will set in only later on, than directed to_the solution of a group of puzzles and enigmas. Du Bousquier’ s secret is indeed no secret for the reader, since it is quickly made apparent to us that he is sexually impotent. What this revelation does to our reading, however, is to generate a systematic movement back and forth between what we know (and what poor Mademoiselle Cormon has to marry him to find out) and that external appearance by which the other characters are deceived: not merely his physical strength and his powerful deportment, but also his association with new industrial wealth and with. the Jacobin traditions .of the bourgeois political sys­ tem. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3841 (#expands, via linked claim)

At the origin of the problem of the existence of others, there is a fundamental presupposition: others are the Other, that is the self which is not myself. Therefore we grasp here a negation as the constitutive structure of the being-of-others. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dramatic irony derives from a gap between reader knowledge and character-deceiving appearances — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3841; Irony works only where shared self-evidence makes proof superfluous; The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 675 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Irony works only where shared self-evidence makes proof superfluous #expands (0.85)
• Dramatic irony derives from a gap between reader knowledge and character-deceiving appearances #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 3841
• The Other is constituted by negation as the self which is not myself #complicates (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 675
• Dialogue can characterize people through hyperbole and deadpan absurdity #exemplifies (0.75) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 374