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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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Lettre
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Table of 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