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David Hering
tendentious
(en)
(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased
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(appropriately for a piece against tendentiousness, the small details are unavoidable [...])
on Host's footnotes
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(appropriately for a piece against tendentiousness, the small details are unavoidable [...])
on Host's footnotes
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pace
(en)
(preposition) with due respect to (someone or their opinion), used to express polite disagreement or contradiction (e.g., "narrative history, pace some theorists, is by no means dead")
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It is important to note here Trilling's contention, pace Donald Davie and others
footnote 1
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It is important to note here Trilling's contention, pace Donald Davie and others
footnote 1
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aporia
(en)
(noun) an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effect / (noun) a logical impasse or contradiction / (noun) a radical contradiction in the import of a text or theory that is seen in deconstruction as inevitable
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Wallace's artistic method for dealing with this infinite cycle--this mirror or bind or aporia--involves a complex, contemporary logic
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Wallace's artistic method for dealing with this infinite cycle--this mirror or bind or aporia--involves a complex, contemporary logic
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hermeneutic
(en)
the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts
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a second problem with the hermeneutics of suspicion
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a second problem with the hermeneutics of suspicion
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brio
(en)
(noun) brilliance, panache, quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
139
Wallace demonstrates with comic brio in the short stories in Brief Interviews
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Wallace demonstrates with comic brio in the short stories in Brief Interviews
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dialogic
(en)
pertaining to a dialogue; used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination
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the possibility of sincerity depends upon its becoming dialogic in chracter, always requiring a response from the other to bring it into play
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the possibility of sincerity depends upon its becoming dialogic in chracter, always requiring a response from the other to bring it into play
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prosody
(en)
(noun) the study of versification / (noun) the systematic study of metrical structure / (noun) a particular system, theory, or style of versification / (noun) the rhythmic and intonational aspect of language
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Wallace is a master at balancing where to place notes, always minding the prosody of his prose.
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Wallace is a master at balancing where to place notes, always minding the prosody of his prose.
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idiolect
(en)
(noun) the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life
162
the real "problem" of the text is the way in which the narrator adopts and/or simulates the protagonist's subjective stance and idiolect.
on The Depressed Person
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the real "problem" of the text is the way in which the narrator adopts and/or simulates the protagonist's subjective stance and idiolect.
on The Depressed Person
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anaphoric reference
(en)
a word refers back to a previous word for its meaning
162
even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent
on the "(i.e., the therapist)" used in Depressed Person
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even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent
on the "(i.e., the therapist)" used in Depressed Person
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cataphoric reference
(en)
when a word in a text refers to another later in the text and you need to look forward to understand
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even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent
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even when the anaphoric or cataphoric elements explained are at most semi-ambivalent
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