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Theodor Fontane - Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age (Paperback)
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Theodor Fontane - Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in German Studies
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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
Fontane's 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 Fontane's 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 language's credibility. Although
Fontane is widely regarded as an ironic writer, Tucker's analyses
reveal a critical distance between his works and the prospect of
irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane's 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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