Postirony the nonfictional literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers
Dissertation, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Dissertation, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 2014 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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| Beschreibung: | 209 Seiten 23 cm, 333 g |
| ISBN: | 3837636615 3-8376-3661-5 9783837636611 978-3-8376-3661-1 |