Daniel Southward, School of English. This talk explores the ideas of post-irony (switching between ironic and sincere behaviour or language) and how this is influencing everything from adverts to film and fiction. What does this mean for creative writing? Does this give license to write thinly veiled autobiography, as evidenced by the rise of auto-fictions? Or should it be seen as granting writers more freedom to express themselves?
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