Postirony
LUKAS, Hoffmann
Postirony The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers / [online] : Lukas Hoffmann - transcript Verlag, 2016 - 1 online resource (210 p.) - Lettre . - Lettre .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Works Cited
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783839436615
10.14361/9783839436615 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
PS3573.A425635 / Z714 2016eb
818/.54
Postirony The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers / [online] : Lukas Hoffmann - transcript Verlag, 2016 - 1 online resource (210 p.) - Lettre . - Lettre .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Works Cited
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783839436615
10.14361/9783839436615 doi
DE-Limba și literatura engleză
resursă online
PS3573.A425635 / Z714 2016eb
818/.54