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also spelled paralepsis and paralipsis; the rhetorical strategy of emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it

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on the one hand, it marks him out as what he believes himself to be, pinning him to the White American Male paradigm, while on the other hand, it actively and repeatedly repudiates that label, invoking a kind of paralliptical self-negation

on DFW's self-consciousness in Signifying Rappers

—p.42 "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World (41) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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While lightly dismissing the "magazine people" as disingenuous, Wallace draws paralliptical attention to his own disingenuousness in writing the piece at all.

in the cruise essay

—p.156 Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure (137) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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