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Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction

Lee Konstantinou

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Description:Charting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, "Cool Characters" examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political life from World War II to the present, showing how irony migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the cultural mainstream of the 1980s. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have sought to create a practice of postirony that might move beyond its limitations.As a concept, irony has been theorized from countless angles, but "Cool Characters" argues that it is best understood as an ethos: an attitude or orientation toward the world, embodied in different character types, articulated via literary style. Lee Konstantinou traces five such types the hipster, the punk, the believer, the coolhunter, and the occupier in new interpretations of works by authors including Ralph Ellison, William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Dave Eggers, William Gibson, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Lethem, and Rachel Kushner.For earlier generations of writers, irony was something vital to be embraced, but beginning most dramatically with David Foster Wallace, dissatisfaction with irony, especially with its alleged tendency to promote cynicism and political passivity, gained force. Postirony the endpoint in an arc that begins with naive belief, passes through irony, and arrives at a new form of contingent conviction illuminates the literary environment that has flourished in the United States since the 1990s."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction. To get started finding Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Charting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, "Cool Characters" examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political life from World War II to the present, showing how irony migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the cultural mainstream of the 1980s. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have sought to create a practice of postirony that might move beyond its limitations.As a concept, irony has been theorized from countless angles, but "Cool Characters" argues that it is best understood as an ethos: an attitude or orientation toward the world, embodied in different character types, articulated via literary style. Lee Konstantinou traces five such types the hipster, the punk, the believer, the coolhunter, and the occupier in new interpretations of works by authors including Ralph Ellison, William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Dave Eggers, William Gibson, Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Lethem, and Rachel Kushner.For earlier generations of writers, irony was something vital to be embraced, but beginning most dramatically with David Foster Wallace, dissatisfaction with irony, especially with its alleged tendency to promote cynicism and political passivity, gained force. Postirony the endpoint in an arc that begins with naive belief, passes through irony, and arrives at a new form of contingent conviction illuminates the literary environment that has flourished in the United States since the 1990s."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction. To get started finding Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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