postirony

See also: post-irony

English

Etymology

post- +‎ irony

Noun

postirony (countable and uncountable, plural postironies)

  1. Alternative form of post-irony
    • 2010, Albert J. Mills, ‎Gabrielle Durepos, ‎Elden Wiebe, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research: L - Z
      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.
    • 2016, Lukas Hoffmann, Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers, transcript Verlag (→ISBN), page 10:
      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.
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