| Description |
1 online resource (211 pages) |
| Series |
Lettre |
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Lettre
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Postirony -- Conceptualizing an Idea -- Reading the Postironic -- Audience, Narrator, and Metalepsis -- Dave Eggers -- Living the Postironic -- David Foster Wallace -- Hope and Despair; The Postironic Condition -- A Second Generation Emerges -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and - unfortunately - used to postmodernism's ironic, self-reflexive metafiction. Authors like David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers chose a different path: Despite the reign of contemporary irony, they strive to reach the reader on a level beyond, cognitively as well as emotionally - they claim to be sincere and true. Focusing largely on nonfiction by said authors, Lukas Hoffmann explores the means the texts use to achieve something new - namely, a new form of sincerity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Wallace, David Foster -- Criticism and interpretation
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Eggers, Dave -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Eggers, Dave fast |
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Wallace, David Foster fast |
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American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American prose literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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American prose literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3839436613 |
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9783839436615 |
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