Histeryczny realizm, fantastyka, postmodernizm: Niewyczerpany żart (Infinite Jest) Davida Fostera Wallace’a

• Authors: Piotr Stasiewicz

Title variants

EN

Hysterical realism, the fantastic and postmodernism: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

Abstracts

EN

The paper is an analysis of some peculiar aspects of David Foster Wallace’s most famous novel, Infinite Jest, concerning particularly the novel’s approach towards traditional realistic and fantastic literary strategies and a general literary worldbuilding. One particularly emphasized aspect of Infinite Jest is its connection with postmodernism regarded as a strategy of subversion of reader’s habits created by 20th century realistic and fantastic literary conventions. The novel’s unclear and problematic worldbuilding is explained as Wallace’s inclination towards literary irony and also as a typical postmodern strategy of parodying “honorable” literary forms and a general disregard of literature of “themes” and “meaning” in favor of emphasizing of act of reading in itself.

Keywords

PL

realizm; fantastyka; postmodernizm; światotwórstwo; ironia

EN

realism; the fantastic; postmodernism; worldbuilding; irony

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Colloquia Litteraria
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 45-68

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Piotr Stasiewicz

• Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

• https://orcid.org/0000000208307619

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/cl.2022.32.1.3

Biblioteka Nauki

20439599