'dialectic' in The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance | Bookmarker

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a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments

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

—p.172 "Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference and the Body (165) by Clare Hayes-Brady

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