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

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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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