whether, in other words, rap is a stereotype or a synecdoche?
He struggles to decide whether rap merely represents the decocted-and-simplified desires of the other, or whether it in fact represents the reality of the other
James Wood suggested the term "hysterical realism"
on DFW's writing style. she thinks "radical realism" (via Tom LeClair) is better
[...] Wallace distances himself falely from a group in order to establish a relationship wtih the reader. This tactic is more complex--and often less successful--in the scholarly writing, because, as shown here, Wallace frequently is an expert in what he writes about. With that in min, such dista…
