
Postirony
The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers
- English
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About this book
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 โ unfortunately โ 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 โ 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 โ namely, a new form of sincerity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Postirony โ Conceptualizing an Idea
- Reading the Postironic โ Audience, Narrator, and Metalepsis
- Dave Eggers โ Living the Postironic
- David Foster Wallace โ Hope and Despair; The Postironic Condition
- A Second Generation Emerges
- Conclusion
- Works Cited