postirony
See also: post-irony
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editpostirony (countable and uncountable, plural postironies)
- Alternative form of post-irony
- 2010, Albert J. Mills, Gabrielle Durepos, Elden Wiebe, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research: L - Z[1]:
- In doing this in art, architecture, literature, and some philosophical outputs it tends to adopt styles that embody these approaches — pastiche, improvisation, irony, and postirony collage and hybridity among them.
- 2016, Lukas Hoffmann, Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 10:
- Postirony is only one term in use for the group of writers I investigate in this book, the others being post-postmodernism and new sincerity. However, not one of these labels seems applicable without causing problems.