Description
  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 bestknown 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 posttruth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own posttruth condition.
  
  
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      Unbranded
    
 
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      Catégorie: 
      Biographie
    
 
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        Auteur: 
        Tucker & Professor o
      
     
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        Date de publication: 
        2021-07-01
      
     
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        Editeur / Label: 
        Bloomsbury Publishin
      
     
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        Format: 
        Hardback
      
     
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        Langue: 
        English
      
     
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        Longueur: 
        264
      
     
  
  
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          Identifiant Fruugo: 
          320512104-711456453
      
 
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          ISBN: 
          9781501368356
      
 
  
  
 
                
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