Cool Characters

Name: Cool Characters
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3231446Cool Charactershttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/cool-characters-9780674969476/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2860995/7217886d-fd78-460f-8e09-906446c5a7ff.jpg?v=638384550582400000730890MXNHarvard University PressInStock/Ebooks/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 became 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 typesthe hipster, the punk, the believer, the coolhunter, and the occupierin 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. Postironythe endpoint in an arc that begins with naive belief, passes through irony, and arrives at a new form of contingent convictionilluminates the literary environment that has flourished in the United States since the 1990s....3167652Cool Characters730890https://www.gandhi.com.mx/cool-characters-9780674969476/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2860995/7217886d-fd78-460f-8e09-906446c5a7ff.jpg?v=638384550582400000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20169780674969476_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9780674969476_Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of postirony.(*_*)9780674969476_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 became 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 typesthe hipster, the punk, the believer, the coolhunter, and the occupierin 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. Postironythe endpoint in an arc that begins with naive belief, passes through irony, and arrives at a new form of contingent convictionilluminates the literary environment that has flourished in the United States since the 1990s....9780674969476_Harvard University Presslibro_electonico_28ff1aa9-fdbe-3d6c-a2c7-9943a28f5693_9780674969476;9780674969476_9780674969476Lee KonstantinouInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/harvard_academic-epub-8282e318-b345-4bb8-a5f3-e21bb692b567.epub2016-03-07T00:00:00+00:00Harvard University Press