Popular Culture Review Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2005 | Page 15

Behind the Irony Curtain 1 ] numerous varieties of irony—rhetorical and situational, verbal and observational, implicit and explicit, intentional and unintentional, stable and unstable, dramatic, cosmic, double irony, disparaging and self betraying irony, irony of simple incongruity, irony of dilemma, and ingenue irony, to mention a few.22 Not to be outdone, noted ironologist D. C.