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Understanding David Foster Wallace
by Marshall Boswell
March 18, 2017 - March 20, 2017 (read/literary-criticism/david-foster-wallace)

Boswell, M. (2003). Understanding David Foster Wallace. University of South Carolina Press.


University of South Carolina Press, 2003. 232 pages. Hardcover. 9781570035173

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mclennan, not on shelf
p.162
annulation »
referring to a ringlike anatomical structure
p.155
Kern unseres Wesen »
"nucleus of our being"; from Freudian psychology
p.150
prelinguistic »
of or at a stage before the development of langua…
p.147
gnomic »
expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy max…
p.132
metempsychosis »
the supposed transmigration at death of the soul …
p.207
ironizing irony
Whereas the postmodern work of his forebears firm…
p.163
One Genuinely Original or Unappropriated or Nonde…
A footnote to the endnote cites a scholarly artic…
p.153
le desir de l'Homme
He is, in many ways, the fulfillment of Lacan's c…
p.140
Kierkegaard's "hiddenness"
Even more importantly, Hal possesses a quality th…
p.109
on metafiction
Metafiction fails because it does not invite us i…