Cool characters : irony and American fiction /
Cool Characters tells the story of American political irony from World War II to the present, how irony came to seem politically subversive for American countercultural rebels, how mainstream culture allegedly co-opted countercultural irony, how irony became part of major critical theories of postmo...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the character of irony
- Irony
- The hipster as critic
- Punk's positive dystopia
- Postirony
- How to be a believer
- The work of the coolhunter
- Conclusion: Manic pixie dream occupier.