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postirony en · NOUN

Etymology

From post- + irony.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of post-irony.
   alt of post-irony
   • 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:
   • 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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