De PE WIKIPEDIAN nEW SINCERRITYIn literary criticismIn response to the hegemony of metafictional and self-conscious irony in contemporary fiction, writerDavid Foster Wallacepredicted, in his 1993 essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction," a new literary movement which would espouse something like the New Sincerity ethos:"The next real literary rebels in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe thatll be the point. Maybe thats why theyll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Todays risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the Oh how banal. To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows."[20]In his essay "David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction," Adam Kelly argues that Wallace's fiction, and that of his generation, is marked by a revival and theoretical reconception of sincerity, challenging the emphasis on authenticity that dominated twentieth-century literature and conceptions of the self.[21]In philosophy"New sincerity" has also sometimes been used to refer to a philosophical concept deriving from the basic tenets ofperformatism.[22]It is also seen as one of the key characteristics ofmetamodernism.[23]Related literature includes Wendy Steiner'sThe Trouble with Beauty,Elaine Scarry'sOn Beauty and Being Just, and Bryn Gribben's 2005Bodies that Shatter: Ekphrasis, Beauty, and the Victorian Body as Art, and the term was taken up designer/film auteur Brady Becker. Related movements may includePost-Postmodernism,New Puritans,Stuckism,The Kitsch MovementandRemodernism, as well as theDogme 95film movement led byLars von Trierand others.[citation needed]

RussiaIn Russia, the term new sincerity (novaya iskrennost) was used as early as the mid-1980s[32]or early 1990s by dissident poetDmitry Prigovand criticMikhail Epstein, as a response to the dominant sense of absurdity in lateSovietandpost-Sovietculture.[19]In Epstein's words, "Postconceptualism, or the New Sincerity, is an experiment in resuscitating "fallen," dead languages with a renewed pathos of love, sentimentality and enthusiasm.[33]This conception of "new sincerity" meant the avoidance of cynicism, but not necessarily of irony. In the words ofUniversity of California, Berkeleyprofessor Alexei Yurchak,[34]it "is a particular brand of irony, which is sympathetic and warm, and allows its authors to remain committed to the ideals that they discuss, while also being somewhat ironic about this commitment."[19][35]Nowadays New Sincerity is being contraposed not to Soviet literature, but topostmodernism.Dmitry Vodennikovhas been acclaimed as the leader of the new wave of Russian New Sincerity.[36][edit]In American poetrySince 2005, poets including Reb Livingston,Joseph Massey, Andrew Mister, and Anthony Robinson have collaborated in ablog-driven poetry movement, described by Massey as "a new sincerity brewing in American poetrya contrast to the cold, irony-laden poetry dominating the journals and magazines and new books of poetry."[37]Other poets named as associated with this movement, or its tenets, includeDavid Berman,Catherine Wagner,Dean Young,Matt Hart,Tao Lin, D.S. Chapman,Frederick Seidel,Arielle Greenberg,[13]andKaryna McGlynn.