Beyond Narratology: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

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angličtina

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Beyond Narratology: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

Original language description

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (1996) provides a fruitful test case for what we can accomplish with the traditional analysis of narrative and novels. As a method to study storytelling, narratology has flourished in the twentieth century and has been the dominant way to study narrative. In this paper I focus on Gerard Genette as the progenitor of narratology, along with Peter Brooks' more recent attempt at re-directing narratology. Using these important examples, which focus on the novel as the prime example of narrative, I claim that narratology fails to account for many instances of narrative that we encounter today-especially novels-and that narratology fails at its own basic goal. This is shown palpably in a small but telling example from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through this reading, I demonstrate that narrative theory and the study of the novel has not changed since its inception several decades ago. This is not necessarily for bad reasons, but the field should

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Prague Journal of English Studies

ISSN

1804-8722

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Volume of the periodical

2

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

31-51

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