Infinite Jest’s Voice(s)

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_7489
dc.title	Infinite Jest’s Voice(s). Notes for an (Audible) Map
dc.contributor.author	Ardovino Adriano
dc.contributor.author	Masiero Pia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/english-literature/2021/1/infinite-jests-voices/
dc.description.abstract	We often refer to a book as having a voice that sounds uniquely distinctive, a voice that stays with us after a book is over. Voice is a key narratological term; together with its twin partner – focalization – it constitutes the skeleton of a given storyworld. The first – experiential – conception of voice is difficult to grasp and articulate and has something to do with a specific tonality we perceive in a direct, almost visceral way. The second – scholarly – produces a host of definitional moves, which tend to crystallize it in a dominant mode of articulating a story. “Infinite Jest’s Voice(s)” aims to bridge the two conceptions of voice just sketched, trying to give the sense of the book’s having a distinctive, unforgettable, voice as far as the reader’s experience is concerned.
dc.relation.ispartof	English Literature
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 8 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2022-03-16
dc.dateAccepted	2021-11-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-12-09
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2420-823X
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/EL/2420-823X/2021/08/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	David Foster Wallace
dc.subject	Infinite Jest
dc.subject	Joelle van Dyne
dc.subject	Madame Psychosis
dc.subject	Narrator
dc.subject	Voice

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Infinite Jest’s Voice(s)

Notes for an (Audible) Map

Pia Masiero Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Adriano Ardovino Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italia

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abstract

We often refer to a book as having a voice that sounds uniquely distinctive, a voice that stays with us after a book is over. Voice is a key narratological term; together with its twin partner – focalization – it constitutes the skeleton of a given storyworld. The first – experiential – conception of voice is difficult to grasp and articulate and has something to do with a specific tonality we perceive in a direct, almost visceral way. The second – scholarly – produces a host of definitional moves, which tend to crystallize it in a dominant mode of articulating a story. “Infinite Jest’s Voice(s)” aims to bridge the two conceptions of voice just sketched, trying to give the sense of the book’s having a distinctive, unforgettable, voice as far as the reader’s experience is concerned.

Published

March 16, 2022

Accepted

Nov. 21, 2021

Submitted

Dec. 9, 2021

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Keywords: Narrator • David Foster Wallace • Madame Psychosis • Joelle van Dyne • Infinite Jest • Voice

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