TY  - BOOK
AU  - LUKAS,Hoffmann
TI  - Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783839436615
AV  - PS3573.A425635 Z714 2016eb
U1  - 818/.54 23
PY  - 2016///
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - DE-Limba și literatura engleză
KW  - UDJG
KW  - resursă online
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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