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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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the act of circumscribing or something that circumscribes (constrict range of activity, draw a line or boundary around)

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a certain circumscription of example

—p.3 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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a certain circumscription of example

—p.3 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

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a palimpsest compositional history of the fiction

—p.4 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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a palimpsest compositional history of the fiction

—p.4 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"

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within the formal model of mise-en-abyme

—p.6 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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within the formal model of mise-en-abyme

—p.6 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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from the very beginning; from the egg

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began ab ovo to flag up

quoting Hannah Sullivan?

—p.11 Introduction (1) missing author
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began ab ovo to flag up

quoting Hannah Sullivan?

—p.11 Introduction (1) missing author
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7 years ago

arranged (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles

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through an imbricated analysis of an early draft

—p.11 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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through an imbricated analysis of an early draft

—p.11 Introduction (1) by David Hering
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7 years ago

a term defined by literary critic Harold Bloom as "return of the dead"; the author is encumbered by his previous state of solitude and holds his work open for inspection with that of his predecessors

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Apophrades, whereby 'the mighty dead return, but they return in our colours, and speaking in our voices'

—p.18 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering
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Apophrades, whereby 'the mighty dead return, but they return in our colours, and speaking in our voices'

—p.18 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering
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7 years ago

an act or instance of announcing; proclamation

in film studies and narratology, descriptive of a narrator that does not take part in the plot

(from Greek) a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context

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deliberately ambiguous metaleptic shifts in narration

—p.23 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering
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deliberately ambiguous metaleptic shifts in narration

—p.23 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering
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7 years ago

the telling of a story by a narrator who summarizes events in the plot and comments on the conversations, thoughts, etc., of the characters