Postirony : the nonfictional literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoffmann, Luk?a?s (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript, 2016.
Colección:Lettre.
Temas:
Wallace, David Foster > Criticism and interpretation.
Eggers, Dave > Criticism and interpretation.
Eggers, Dave.
Wallace, David Foster.
1900-2099
American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Prose américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
American prose literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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