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prepotent
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Barthes' portrait of the prepotent reader

—p.48 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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tendentious

criticism's tendentious politics

—p.46 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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bricolage

To Nabokov, an author was more than a bricolage artiste, more than a recombiner of older materials.

—p.46 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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Derridean
How to Be Alone

The chief pleasure of the Encyclopedia lies in a kind of Derridean lateral slide of assocation.

—p.188 First City (179) by Jonathan Franzen
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antic
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

antic, decentered, many-voiced, perverse

describing Barthes' theory of the text. never seen it used as an adjective before

—p.46 Rereading Barthes and Nabokov (42) by Zadie Smith
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