New Sincerity

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

the New Sincerity

  1. (art) A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.
    • 2012 November 20, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, “Sincerity, Not Irony, Is Our Age's Ethos”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      [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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