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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

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heterodox (en)

unorthodox

viii

its sprawling treatment of such heterodox themes

on The Broom of the System

—p.viii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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its sprawling treatment of such heterodox themes

on The Broom of the System

—p.viii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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7 years, 9 months ago

synecdoche (en)

a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)

viii

they necessarily make extensive use of synecdoche

quoting Edward Mendelson's essay on Gravity's Rainbow (p30)

—p.viii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) missing author
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they necessarily make extensive use of synecdoche

quoting Edward Mendelson's essay on Gravity's Rainbow (p30)

—p.viii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) missing author
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writ large (en)

clear and obvious, in a stark or exaggerated form

ix
—p.ix Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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—p.ix Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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mediated (en)

intervened with, through an intermediary

ix

she's receiving heavily mediated data

quoted from Conversations With p. 34

—p.ix Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by David Foster Wallace
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she's receiving heavily mediated data

quoted from Conversations With p. 34

—p.ix Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by David Foster Wallace
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Sierpinski gasket (en)

a fractal and attractive fixed set with the overall shape of an equilateral triangle, subdivided recursively into smaller equilateral triangles

x

Wallace revealed that he structured Infinite Jest like a Sierpinski gasket

—p.x Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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Wallace revealed that he structured Infinite Jest like a Sierpinski gasket

—p.x Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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teleological (en)

the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

xi

between two linguistic and narrative teleological poles

—p.xi Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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between two linguistic and narrative teleological poles

—p.xi Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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heteroglossia (en)

the presence of multiple voices or expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work.

xi

Wallace's dialogue owes a debt both to Socratic inquiry and to Dostoevsky's heteroglossia

—p.xi Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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Wallace's dialogue owes a debt both to Socratic inquiry and to Dostoevsky's heteroglossia

—p.xi Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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ekphrasis (en)

a rhetorical term originally taught to Greek students as a way of bringing the experience of an object to a listener or reader through highly detailed descriptive writing

xii

Wallace's use of ekphrasis in the context of representing film

—p.xii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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Wallace's use of ekphrasis in the context of representing film

—p.xii Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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hermeneutic (en)

the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts

8

Jay subsumes everything his patients tell him to an already formed hermeneutic theory of truth

on Broom

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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Jay subsumes everything his patients tell him to an already formed hermeneutic theory of truth

on Broom

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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monologic (en)

of, relating to, or characteristic of a monologue

8

Bakhtin calls this the rhetorical or monologic speech genre

can't remember having seen it used before, but the meaning is pretty obvious

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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Bakhtin calls this the rhetorical or monologic speech genre

can't remember having seen it used before, but the meaning is pretty obvious

—p.8 David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas (3) by Adam Kelly
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7 years, 9 months ago