postirony

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A form of post-irony — A state in which earnest and ironic intents become muddled.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounpostirony (countable and uncountable, plural postironies)

plural postironies

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of post-irony.

    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.

    2010, Albert J. Mills, Gabrielle Durepos, Elden Wiebe, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research: L - Z
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    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.

    2016, Lukas Hoffmann, Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 10

Origin

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