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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Hoffmann, Lukas,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839436615; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485264; 9783110701012; 9783110489842; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839436615?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lukas Hoffmann.

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.