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

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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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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