Cool Characters - Irony and American Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Lee Konstantinou is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Klappentext 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 became a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of ¿postirony.¿ Zusammenfassung 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 became a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of “postirony.”

Product details

• Authors: Lee Konstantinou, Konstantinou Lee, Lee Konstantinou
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780674967885
• ISBN: 978-0-674-96788-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form