Research on Intertextual Theory of Situational Irony——Taking Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The French Lieutenant's Woman as Examples

This essay aims to study situational irony(SI),staged-intertextuality,with the theory of intertextuality as the framework foundation.Through the investigation of situational ironic events in literary works,we can come to the process of a SI that a pretext causes pressure to the context of the text by the devices of intertextuality,with the meaning of the text twisted,showing the features of SI such as"unexpectedness,human frailty,opposition,and outcome(the experience of loss or win)".