Title Statements
- Full title :Postirony.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Transcript Verlag
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:3839436613, 9783839436615
- oclc:ocn966364172
- LC Classification:PS3573.A425635
- Dewey Decimal:813.54
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Post-Postmodernism, Postirony, and New Sincerity; Genre Matters ; Creative Nonfiction -- Memoir and Autocriticism; New Voices in Contemporary Literature; Dave Eggers -- Counter-Cultural Hero and Idealist; David Foster Wallace -- Changing the Tone of Contemporary Literature; Jonathan Lethem and Nick Flynn -- Postirony's 2nd Generation; Synopsis; Postirony -- Conceptualizing an Idea; Richard Rorty -- The Liberal Ironist; Linda Hutcheon -- Irony's Edge; David Foster Wallace -- How Irony Spread; Irony -- An All-Embracing Attitude.
Jedediah Purdy -- A Return to Traditional ValuesAlex Shakar -- The Savage Girl ; The Postironic -- A Philosophical Stand; Reading the Postironic -- Audience, Narrator, and Metalepsis ; Audiences -- Preliminary Thoughts ; Metalepsis; Audience -- Narratee and Narrative Audience; Dave Eggers -- Living the Postironic; Meta-Autobiography; Trauma -- True Feelings and the Plot; The Nonfictional Frame; Struggling With Postmodernism; "I want to be doing something beautiful" -- Narrating Dave and Narrated Dave ; The Narrated Dave; The Narrating Dave and His Audience; Justifying the Narrative.
Concluding AHWOSG David F…
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