Közelítések David Foster Wallace-hoz
Approaches to David Foster Wallace

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to examine David Foster Wallace´s literary work and his main work titled Infinite Jest. In the first part of the paper, the reception history of the novel is outlined (including both the English and Hungarian versions). The study also draws parallels between Wallace´s novel and his activity as a literary critic. He offers a new postmodern approach in his essay E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction: he talks about post-postmodernism and he refers to the relationship of the literary text and intermediality as image-fiction. According to him, popular culture has appropriated the methods of classical postmodernism, especially irony. As a result, he concludes that it is important to move beyond these methods so that a new language can be created in which the reader recognizes his vulnerability. Last but not least, Infinite Jest is examined in the above-mentioned context. In a certain way, it is a hybrid work between literature and television that depicts a world where everything is medialized and ruled by popular culture.

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