Beyond Narratology: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Beyond Narratology: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

Beyond Narratology: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AJ - Písemnictví, mas–media, audiovize

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2013

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Prague Journal of English Studies

ISSN

1804-8722

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

2

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

31-51

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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