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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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ekphrasis
David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels

Wallace's use of ekphrasis in the context of representing film

—p.xii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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teleological

between two linguistic and narrative teleological poles

—p.xi Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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heteroglossia

Wallace's dialogue owes a debt both to Socratic inquiry and to Dostoevsky's heteroglossia

—p.xi Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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Sierpinski gasket

Wallace revealed that he structured Infinite Jest like a Sierpinski gasket

—p.x Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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mediated

she's receiving heavily mediated data

quoted from Conversations With p. 34

—p.ix Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by David Foster Wallace
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