03557oam 2200889 c 450 991013624190332120260102090118.09783839436615383943661310.14361/9783839436615(CKB)3710000000915715(MiAaPQ)EBC4772676(DE-B1597)477017(OCoLC)971340004(OCoLC)979887565(OCoLC)987949585(OCoLC)992507846(DE-B1597)9783839436615(transcript Verlag)9783839436615(Perlego)1463151(EXLCZ)99371000000091571520260102d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierPostironyThe Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave EggersLukas Hoffmann1st ed.Bielefeldtranscript Verlag20161 online resource (211 pages)Lettre9783837636611 3837636615 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 8 Introduction 9 Postirony - Conceptualizing an Idea 37 Reading the Postironic - Audience, Narrator, and Metalepsis 65 Dave Eggers - Living the Postironic 89 David Foster Wallace - Hope and Despair; The Postironic Condition 127 A Second Generation Emerges 175 Conclusion 191 Works Cited 201What 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.Besprochen in:The Year's Work in English Studies, 98 (2019)Hoffmann, PostironyThe Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave EggersLiteratureCultureU.S.APostmodernismPostironyIronyDavid Foster WallaceDave EggersNonfictionSincerityAmerican StudiesBritish StudiesGeneral Literature StudiesCultural StudiesLiterary StudiesLiteratureCultureU.S.A.PostmodernismPostironyIronyDavid Foster WallaceDave EggersNonfictionSincerityAmerican StudiesBritish StudiesGeneral Literature StudiesCultural StudiesLiterary Studies818/.54Hoffmann Lukas<p>Lukas Hoffmann, Academy of Performing Arts BW, Germany</p>aut1888248DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910136241903321Postirony4526769UNINA