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James Wood suggested the term "hysterical realism"

[...] Wallace distances himself falely from a group in order to establish a relationship wtih the reader. This tactic is more complex--and often less successful--in the scholarly writing, because, as shown here, Wallace frequently is an expert in what he writes about. With that in min, such dista…

lallating function

While lightly dismissing the "magazine people" as disingenuous, Wallace draws paralliptical attention to his own disingenuousness in writing the piece at all.