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brio
Consider David Foster Wallace

Wallace demonstrates with comic brio in the short stories in Brief Interviews

—p.139 David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction (131) by Adam Kelly
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hermeneutic

a second problem with the hermeneutics of suspicion

—p.139 David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction (131) by Adam Kelly
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aporia

Wallace's artistic method for dealing with this infinite cycle--this mirror or bind or aporia--involves a complex, contemporary logic

—p.136 David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction (131) by Adam Kelly
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pace

It is important to note here Trilling's contention, pace Donald Davie and others

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—p.133 David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction (131) by Adam Kelly
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tendentious

(appropriately for a piece against tendentiousness, the small details are unavoidable [...])

on Host's footnotes

—p.120 "Impervious to U.S. Parsing": Encyclopedism, Autism, and Infinite Jest (113) missing author
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