Cool characters : irony and American fiction /
"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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.