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encomium
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

The prospect of living with her inspires pages of encomia on solitude

about Kafka's attitude towards his betrothed

—p.63 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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hagiography

The truly hagiographic text is Gustav Janouch's Conversations with Kafka.

—p.61 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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mise-en-abyme

find in those texts miniature versions of Pnin's Russian doll structure, mise-en-abymes placed by Nabokov into his novel

—p.54 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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mimeograph

what amounts to a reader's mimeograph of the Author's creative act

—p.53 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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multivalent

For he felt his own work to be multiplex but not truly multivalent--the buck stopped at Nabokov, the man who had placed the details there in the first place.

—p.51 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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