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  1. Postirony
    The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers
    Author: Hoffmann, Lukas
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and - unfortunately - used to postmodernism's ironic,... more

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    What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and - unfortunately - used to postmodernism's ironic, self-reflexive metafiction. Authors like David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers chose a different path: Despite the reign of contemporary irony, they strive to reach the reader on a level beyond, cognitively as well as emotionally - they claim to be sincere and true. Focusing largely on nonfiction by said authors, Lukas Hoffmann explores the means the texts use to achieve something new - namely, a new form of sincerity.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839436615
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    RVK Categories: HU 9088
    DDC Categories: 810
    Series: Lettre
    Subjects: Nichtfiktionale Prosa; Ehrlichkeit <Motiv>; American Studies; British Studies; Cultural Studies; Culture; Dave Eggers; David Foster Wallace; General Literature Studies; Irony; Literary Studies; Nonfiction; Postirony; Postmodernism; Sincerity; U.S.A
    Other subjects: Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008); Eggers, Dave (1970-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Oct. 27, 2016)
  2. Narrative instability
    destabilizing identities, realities, and textualities in contemporary American popular culture
    Author: Schubert, Stefan
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    This book introduces the concept of ‘narrative instability’ in order to make visible a new trend in contemporary US popular culture, to analyze this trend’s poetics, and to scrutinize its textual politics. It identifies those texts as narratively... more

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    This book introduces the concept of ‘narrative instability’ in order to make visible a new trend in contemporary US popular culture, to analyze this trend’s poetics, and to scrutinize its textual politics. It identifies those texts as narratively unstable that consciously frustrate and obfuscate the process of narrative understanding and comprehension. Despite—or rather, exactly because of—their destabilizing tendencies, such texts have attained mainstream popularity in recent years across media, most prominently in films, video games, and TV series. Focusing on three clusters of instability that form around identities, realities, and textualities, the book argues that narratively unstable texts encourage their audiences to engage with the constructedness of their universes, that narrative instability embodies a new facet of popular culture, that it can only be understood transmedially, and that its textual politics particularly speak to white male middle-class Americans

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783825346843
    Series: American studies ; volume 305
    Subjects: Genre; Zeitgenössische Literatur; U.S.A; Visuelle Medien; Populärkultur; Narrativität; Transmedialität; Identität; Realität; Intertextualität; Metatextualität; Gender Studies; Maskulinität; soziale Klasse; Fernsehen; Film; Videospiele
    Other subjects: Hardcover, Softcover / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: viii, 301 Seiten
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    Dissertation, Universität Leipzig, 2018
  3. Postirony
    the nonfictional literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers
    Author: Hoffmann, Luk?a?s
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld, [Germany]

    What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and - unfortunately - used to postmodernism's ironic,... more

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    What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and - unfortunately - used to postmodernism's ironic, self-reflexive metafiction. Authors like David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers chose a different path: Despite the reign of contemporary irony, they strive to reach the reader on a level beyond, cognitively as well as emotionally - they claim to be sincere and true. Focusing largely on nonfiction by said authors, Lukas Hoffmann explores the means the texts use to achieve something new - namely, a new form of sincerity

     
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  4. Fueling financial stability
    the financial impact of U.S. renewable fuel standard
    Author: Janda, Karel; Sila, Jan; Zilberman, David
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Prague

    Oil price shocks, which materialize in petrol prices, put severe inflationary pressures on countries that rely largely on fossil fuels, causing financial instability. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, implemented in the USA in 2005,... more

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    Oil price shocks, which materialize in petrol prices, put severe inflationary pressures on countries that rely largely on fossil fuels, causing financial instability. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program, implemented in the USA in 2005, sanctions blending corn-based ethanol with fuel and can offset oil price shocks. RFS is a technological innovation that protects against inflationary pressures while being ecologically beneficial. We examine how global oil price changes affect US petrol costs and the resulting savings for US families by assessing the program's effectiveness. Our findings show that blending ethanol into petrol serves as a buffer against global oil price shocks, delivering an average $0.185 per gallon savings from 2019 to 2022. This translates to $22.8 billion in annual savings for American consumers. As the global debate shifts towards sustainable energy and climate change mitigation, our findings highlight the practical benefits of diversifying energy sources, which promote both environmental sustainability and economic stability in the face of volatile commodity price shocks.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/286359
    Series: IES working paper ; 2023, 30
    Subjects: Financial stability; Commodities; Energy markets; Technological Innovation; Ethanol; U.S.A
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 21 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. U.S. American culture as popular culture
    Contributor: Böger, Astrid (Herausgeber); Sedlmeier, Florian (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

    This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more... more

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    This volume of original essays presents an overview of Popular Culture Studies as an ever-growing branch of American Studies while also reflecting the critical debates driving the field toward a more nuanced approach to contemporary culture more generally. Thus, many of the essays included take fresh perspectives on Black American culture, feminism, multiculturalism, and queer studies, among others, but they also provide critical updates on the global impact of U.S. American popular culture. If an understanding of U.S. Culture as Popular Culture in its national and international dimensions is one of the aims behind this publication, another is to conceive of cultural formations against the backdrop of shifting media environments. Placed alongside more traditional media such as literature and film, more recent phenomena including reality television, internet memes, and video games add considerable relevance to the critical appreciation of culture in the twenty-first century

     
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