TY - GEN N2 - Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of "postirony." DO - 10.4159/9780674969490 DO - doi AB - Lee Konstantinou examines irony in American literary and political life, showing how it migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the 1980s mainstream. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately become a target of recent writers who have moved beyond its limitations with a practice of "postirony." T1 - Cool Characters :Irony and American Fiction / AU - Konstantinou, Lee, JF - EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016 JF - EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2016 JF - Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 EP - ZDB-23-DGG EP - ZDB-23-DKU CN - BH301.I7 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1480474 KW - Counterculture KW - Irony in literature. KW - Irony KW - Irony. KW - Politics and culture KW - Postmodernism (Literature). KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. SN - 9780674969490 TI - Cool Characters :Irony and American Fiction / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969490 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674969490 ER -