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Postirony : The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers / Lukas Hoffmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LettrePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783837636611
  • 9783839436615
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 420 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3573.A425635
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
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.
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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.

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