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

hermetic, enclosed, and self-referencing fictional structures

quoting Marshall Boswell (Understanding DFW I think?)

—p.9 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Marshall Boswell
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Menippean satire

the novel's debt to the genre of Menippean satire

on Broom

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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hermeneutic

Jay subsumes everything his patients tell him to an already formed hermeneutic theory of truth

on Broom

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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monologic

Bakhtin calls this the rhetorical or monologic speech genre

can't remember having seen it used before, but the meaning is pretty obvious

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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ekphrasis

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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