synecdoche
(en)
a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)
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whether, in other words, rap is a stereotype or a synecdoche?
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whether, in other words, rap is a stereotype or a synecdoche?
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alterity
(en)
(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation
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Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.
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Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.
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dialectic
(en)
a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments
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Lenore embodies the kind of Hegelian dialectic of servitude characteristic of Wallace's engagement with ideas of identity and connection
since Lenore's identity is mostly shaped by her relations with men around her
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Lenore embodies the kind of Hegelian dialectic of servitude characteristic of Wallace's engagement with ideas of identity and connection
since Lenore's identity is mostly shaped by her relations with men around her
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abjection
(en)
(noun) a low or downcast state; degradation / (noun) the act of making abject; humbling rejection
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a young woman's voluntary abjection of her subjectivity in the face of a violent sexual attack
on Brief Interview #20
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a young woman's voluntary abjection of her subjectivity in the face of a violent sexual attack
on Brief Interview #20
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abrogation
(en)
the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement
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The disingenuousness of his repeated abrogation of expertise and continued professions that he was unable to write beyond his own perspective, even as he insisted on the central importance of the perspective of the other
on DFW
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The disingenuousness of his repeated abrogation of expertise and continued professions that he was unable to write beyond his own perspective, even as he insisted on the central importance of the perspective of the other
on DFW
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soporific
(en)
(adjective) causing or tending to cause sleep / (adjective) tending to dull awareness or alertness / (adjective) of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy / (noun) a soporific agent / (noun) hypnotic
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antagonize the soporific fog of solipsism
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antagonize the soporific fog of solipsism
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