Cool characters : irony and American fiction /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Konstantinou, Lee (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Θέματα: Ειρωνεία > Πολιτικές απόψεις > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής > Ιστορία; Πολιτική και πολιτισμός > Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής; Ειρωνεία στη λογοτεχνία; Μεταμοντερνισμός (Λογοτεχνία); Irony.

 "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. 

 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.