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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 become 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 types the hipster, the punk, the believer, the coolhunter, and the occupier in 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, dissati

Author

Konstantinou, Lee, author

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674967885

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Political Science