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...critique of flashiness and attitude, and argues for a healthy distrust of irony and intellectualizing. Here is my verdict: Infinite Jest has a heart of g

* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". ''Critique: Studies in Contempor

...ing, and urges literary authors to avoid irony. Wallace used many forms of irony, focusing on individuals' continued longing for earnest, unselfconscious ex * Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''." ''Critique: Studies in Cont

...contemporary American fiction, which he attacks for its tend-ency to give irony and cynicism preference over empathy. Hal provides Wallace with a mouthpiec ...inclusion. A how-to. We are shown how to fashion masks of ennui and jaded irony at a young age where the face is fictile enough to assume the shape of what

very like ''sardonic'', indeed incisively so; may or may not involve irony (i.e., mordancy is not necessarily sarcasm)

...y derisive; not quite the same as ''sarcastic'', which more often involves irony: a ''sarcastic'' remark may say one thing but mean the opposite, whereas a

...active way of looking at viewer passivity, at TV's institutionalization of irony, narcissism, nihilism, stasis, loneliness. It's not our fault! It's outmode