I advocate a reading that moves away from the inclination to sui generis reading and toward a sense of him as a writer deeply embedded in literary and cultural history
what a great use of the phrase
The teleological imperative of postmodernism is to will its own decline, to question itself into silence, which is Wallace's central problem with it.
Barry Dingle's homunculus never achieves his telos
on Order and Flux in Northampton
the fundamental unbridgeability of the gap between self and other is reinforced. That gap entails alterity, the nexus of subjectivity in the objectof communication that cannot be reached by communicative intent
The term "dialogic" here, and elsewhere in this study, is intentionally ambiguous. It refers both to Bakhtinian dialogism--that is, pertaining to double-voicedness, either narrative or linguistic--and to the state of being in dialogue.
