New Sincerity

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  1. A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.
    — [Christy Wampole] notes that the New Sincerity has been around since the 1980s, and is a response to "postmodern cynicism, detachment and meta-referentiality." She's right about that, and the examples she cites—David Foster Wallace, Wes Anderson, and Cat Power—are right too. But the New Sincerity failed, she tells us.

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the New Sincerity canonical

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Popularized in the 1990s by American author David Foster Wallace.
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