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Author:

Hoffmann, Lukas, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Transcript,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

209 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American prose literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Wallace, David Foster--Criticism and interpretation.
Eggers, Dave--Criticism and interpretation.
Sincerity in literature.
Creative nonfiction.

Notes:

Revised thesis (doctoral) - Universita˜t, Tu˜bingen, 2014. Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209).

Contents:

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.

Series:

Lettre (Transcript (Firm))

ISBN:

3837636615
9783837636611

OCLC:

(OCoLC)961475654

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)