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Old Mister Crow
Join Date: May-2002
Location: Seattle, WA.
Country: USA
Posts: 3,197
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Originally posted by pootsie
Perhaps bonsai can be used as "a neotraditional reaction to, and thus doubly-ironic inversion of, the ironic modernist's creative rejection of bogus values, through a reassertion of a sincere and value-laden paradigm."
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Damn, Pootsie! Have you read Wallace's essay too? This is more or less what Wallace is proposing as the artistic escape from the barrenness of irony (which he claims is great in a cultural emergency but ultimately unfulfilling when it becomes the dominant expressive theme over the course of several decades). Wallace suggests that we'll need artistic risk-takers, but in this case, that the risk will be the risk of being rejected as naive or sentimental for one's affirmation of sincere and genuine values.
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Interesting comments about irony and self-centeredness. I think you may be on to something there. Thanks!
Best regards,
Carl
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