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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 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Postirony
• Subtitle: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers
• Author: Lukas Hoffmann
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• EAN: 9783837636611
• ISBN: 3837636615
• ID: 14125813
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 150 × 226 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. October 2016

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