LEADER 03557oam 2200889 c 450 001 9910136241903321 005 20260102090118.0 010 $a9783839436615 010 $a3839436613 024 7 $a10.14361/9783839436615 035 $a(CKB)3710000000915715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4772676 035 $a(DE-B1597)477017 035 $a(OCoLC)971340004 035 $a(OCoLC)979887565 035 $a(OCoLC)987949585 035 $a(OCoLC)992507846 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783839436615 035 $a(transcript Verlag)9783839436615 035 $a(Perlego)1463151 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000915715 100 $a20260102d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostirony$eThe Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers$fLukas Hoffmann 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBielefeld$ctranscript Verlag$d2016 215 $a1 online resource (211 pages) 225 0 $aLettre 311 08$a9783837636611 311 08$a3837636615 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aFrontmatter 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 201 330 $aWhat 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. 330 1 $aBesprochen in:The Year's Work in English Studies, 98 (2019) 517 2 $aHoffmann, Postirony$eThe Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers 606 $aLiterature 606 $aCulture 606 $aU.S.A 606 $aPostmodernism 606 $aPostirony 606 $aIrony 606 $aDavid Foster Wallace 606 $aDave Eggers 606 $aNonfiction 606 $aSincerity 606 $aAmerican Studies 606 $aBritish Studies 606 $aGeneral Literature Studies 606 $aCultural Studies 606 $aLiterary Studies 615 4$aLiterature 615 4$aCulture 615 4$aU.S.A. 615 4$aPostmodernism 615 4$aPostirony 615 4$aIrony 615 4$aDavid Foster Wallace 615 4$aDave Eggers 615 4$aNonfiction 615 4$aSincerity 615 4$aAmerican Studies 615 4$aBritish Studies 615 4$aGeneral Literature Studies 615 4$aCultural Studies 615 4$aLiterary Studies 676 $a818/.54 700 $aHoffmann$b Lukas$p

Lukas Hoffmann, Academy of Performing Arts BW, Germany

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