Postirony : : The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers / / Lukas Hoffmann.
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Hoffmann, Lukas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Postirony : The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers / Lukas Hoffmann. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (210 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Lettre 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 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) American Studies. British Studies. Cultural Studies. Culture. Dave Eggers. David Foster Wallace. General Literature Studies. Irony. Literary Studies. Nonfiction. Postirony. Postmodernism. Sincerity. U.S.A. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2016 9783110701005 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 9783110485103 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2016 9783110485264 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PP Plus eBook-Package 2016 9783110701012 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Complete eBook Package 2014-2016 9783110489842 ZDB-23-TGP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript English Contemporary eBook-Package 2016-2018 9783110661545 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839436615?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839436615 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839436615/original |
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