Description: Theodor Fontane : Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age, Hardcover by Tucker, Brian, ISBN 1501368354, ISBN-13 9781501368356, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
What happens when fashionable forms of unserious speech prove to be contagious, when they adulterate and weaken communicative spheres that rely on honesty, trust, and sincerity? Demonstrating how the tension between irony and avowal constitutes a central conflict in Fontanes works, this book argues that his best-known society novels play out a struggle between the incompatible demands of these two modes of speaking. Read in this light, the novels identify an irreconcilable discrepancy between word and deed as both the root of emotional discord and the proximate cause of historical and political upheaval.
Given the alarm since 2016 over unreliability, falsehood, and indifference to truth, it is now easier to perceive in Fontanes novels a profound concern about language that is not sincere and not meant to be taken literally. For Fontane, irony exemplifies a discrepancy between language and meaning, a loosening of the ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer. His novels investigate the extent to which human relationships can continue to function in the face of pervasive irony and the erosion of languages credibility. Although Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer, Tuckers analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of irony as a dominant idiom.
Revisiting Fontanes novels in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own post-truth condition.
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Book Title: Theodor Fontane : Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Theodor Fontane : Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: European / German, Modern / 19th Century, Semiotics & Theory
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Brian Tucker
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: New Directions in German Studies
Format: Hardcover
