Postirony [online] : The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers / Lukas Hoffmann

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 online access with authorization star

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.

Achiziție prin proiectul Anelis Plus 2020

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.