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02552aam a2200373 i 4500 001 5392C45C8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 150831s2016 mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2015033860 020 $a 0674967887 020 $a 9780674967885 035 $a (OCoLC)921611291 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c HLS $d DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d BDX $d GZM $d GZN $d IUL $d ZCU $d LTSCA $d COO $d PUL $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d YUS $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BH301 I7 K66 2016 100 1 $a Konstantinou, Lee, $e author. 245 10 $a Cool characters : $b irony and American fiction / $c Lee Konstantinou. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xiii, 368 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Cool Characters tells the story of American political irony from World War II to the present: how irony came to seem politically subversive for American countercultural rebels; how mainstream culture allegedly co-opted countercultural irony; how irony became part of major critical theories of postmodernism; and how -- starting in the late 1980s -- innovative writers developed an idea of "postirony" with the hope of overcoming the political limitations of postmodern irony. To chart the shift from irony to postirony, and show what relationship culture has to politics, the book offers intensive analyses of important American countercultural figures: the hipster, the punk, a figure the author calls "the believer," the coolhunter, and the occupier; and new interpretations of important works by Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Michael Muhammad Knight, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, Alex Shakar, William Gibson, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Lethem, and Rachel Kushner."--Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction: the character of irony -- Irony -- The hipster as critic -- Punk's positive dystopia -- Postirony -- How to be a believer -- The work of the coolhunter -- Conclusion: Manic pixie dream occupier. 650 0 $a Irony $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Counterculture $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Irony in literature. 650 0 $a Politics and culture $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Postmodernism (Literature) 650 0 $a Irony. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161103021528.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5392C45C8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search