@Book{1809636329,
author="Haase, Felix",
title="Productive Failure: Sincerity and Irony in Contemporary North American Literature",
year="2022",
edition="1st ed.",
publisher="wbg Academic",
address="Darmstadt",
keywords="American literature; Canadian literature; Irony in literature; Electronic books",
abstract="Cover -- Impressum -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theorizing Productive Failure -- 2.1 The Concept of Sincerity -- 2.2 Navigating Sincerity and Irony in Literature -- 2.3 The Voice of Productive Failure -- 3 Belief and Sincerity in Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 ``The Consciousness Behind the Text'': The Yearning for Sincerity in AHWOSG -- 3.3 ``The Core is the Core is the Core'': The Limits of Representation in AHWOSG -- 3.4 ``A Mistake the Author Could not Refrain from Making'': Productive Failure in AHWOSG -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Paradoxical Desires: Romantic Irony and Autofictionality in Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Adam Gordon as Experiencing-I: Sincerity and Romantic Irony -- 4.3 Adam Gordon as Narrating-I: Risk and Autofictionality -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 5 ``A Sincere Attempt to Get Somewhere'': Between Authentic and Relational Selfhood in How Should a Person Be? -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Out with the Old (Sincerity) -- 5.3 In with the New (Sincerity) -- 5.4 The Role of Failure -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- 6.1 The Complicated Relationship between Romanticism, Postmodernism and the New Sincerity -- 6.2 Formal and Thematic Similarities Shared by Eggers, Lerner and Heti -- 6.3 The Case of AHWOSG -- 6.4 The Case of LTAS -- 6.5 The Case of HSAPB -- 6.6 Productive Failure: Literature as a Privileged Medium -- 6.7 The New Sincerity in a North American Context -- 6.8 Quo vadis, New Sincerity? -- 7 Bibliography -- Backcover.",
note="Felix Haase",
note="Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources",
isbn="9783534406739",
url="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=7026981",
language="English"
}