challenging the too-frequent tendency toward hagiographical, sui generis readings
While Rorty is explicitly invoked in the title of a later short story--"Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature," taken from Rorty's 1979 book of the same name--Wallace also referred to Stanley Cavell at least once, and his influence on Wallace's work has gained increasing attention in the recent past.…
I advocate a reading that moves away from the inclination to sui generis reading and toward a sense of him as a writer deeply embedded in literary and cultural history
what a great use of the phrase
The teleological imperative of postmodernism is to will its own decline, to question itself into silence, which is Wallace's central problem with it.
Barry Dingle's homunculus never achieves his telos
on Order and Flux in Northampton
