METAMODERN TRAVELS: FROM IRONY TO META-IRONY

The metamodern attempts to supplant the postmodern. It is characterized by a special understanding of irony. quite different from total rigid irony postmodernism. Irony has always existed. However, its character, types, and objects differed significantly. Voltaire’s in New Age was not total. supreme values Reason Enlightenment modern era were subject ridicule. For postmodern there no taboos, so became total, ridicule modernity harsh destructive. purifying positive character such also took place. Metamodernism wants revive metanarratives modern. denies postmodern, but it does abandon altogether. connected new sincerity. author’s intention along whole path oscillating interpretation now hidden, sincerely revealed. Such sincerity can be called circumspect. reader or viewer opportunity travel through various versions his interpretation, an accurate reading ironic allegory, all way mockery presented. accompanies oscillation plays with many shades. There absence irony, simple post-irony, meta-irony. In metamodern, becomes cautious instrument sparing criticism. conscious choice cultural figures, who tend apply certain non-rigid types dose them, combining them contradictory combination fits into paradigm oscillation. With tries traumatize anyone, impose assessments, let individual sort out her own experience images situations depicted.