TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffmann,Lukas
TI  - Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783837636611
AV  - PS3573.A425635 
U1  - 420 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - American Studies
KW  - British Studies
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Culture
KW  - Dave Eggers
KW  - David Foster Wallace
KW  - General Literature Studies
KW  - Irony
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Nonfiction
KW  - Postirony
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Sincerity
KW  - U.S.A
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
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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