David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form [terms] | Bookmarker

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an interval between two acts of a play or opera

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Wallace perfors a form of entr'acte

—p.30 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering

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Wallace perfors a form of entr'acte

—p.30 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering

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an act of subsuming

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involves the subsumption of the female interviewer's voice

—p.30 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering

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involves the subsumption of the female interviewer's voice

—p.30 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering

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of or in counterpoint

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contrapuntal unresolved Bakhtinian symphony of cultural voices and positions

—p.42 Spatiality: 'In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere': Regionalism and Institutions (41) by David Hering

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contrapuntal unresolved Bakhtinian symphony of cultural voices and positions

—p.42 Spatiality: 'In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere': Regionalism and Institutions (41) by David Hering

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the action of going out of or leaving a place

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institutions in Wallace's fiction progressively impede egress

—p.45 Spatiality: 'In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere': Regionalism and Institutions (41) by David Hering

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institutions in Wallace's fiction progressively impede egress

—p.45 Spatiality: 'In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere': Regionalism and Institutions (41) by David Hering

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(linguistics) the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking OR the act or an instance of omitting something

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the steady process of elision

—p.77 Spatiality: 'In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere': Regionalism and Institutions (41) by David Hering

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the steady process of elision

—p.77 Spatiality: 'In the Middle of the Middle of Nowhere': Regionalism and Institutions (41) by David Hering

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skeptical, tending to doubt

84

Aporetic Duplication

—p.84 Visuality: 'Seeing by Mirror-Light': Wallace on Reflection (79) by David Hering

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Aporetic Duplication

—p.84 Visuality: 'Seeing by Mirror-Light': Wallace on Reflection (79) by David Hering

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part of French professor Lucien Dällenbach's three-part theory of mise-en-abyme; a sequence that is supposed to enclose the work that encloses it

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—p.84 Visuality: 'Seeing by Mirror-Light': Wallace on Reflection (79) by David Hering

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—p.84 Visuality: 'Seeing by Mirror-Light': Wallace on Reflection (79) by David Hering

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report or represent in outline; foreshadow or symbolize

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as the collection does not come together organically as much as adumbrate the problems Wallace was having with his third novel

—p.132 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering

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as the collection does not come together organically as much as adumbrate the problems Wallace was having with his third novel

—p.132 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering

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a term defined by literary critic Harold Bloom as "return of the dead"; the author is encumbered by his previous state of solitude and holds his work open for inspection with that of his predecessors

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performs a kind of apophrades whereby

—p.144 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering

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performs a kind of apophrades whereby

—p.144 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering

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a tendency to extreme loquacity

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dismissive comment about Fogle's logorrhoea

—p.157 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering

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dismissive comment about Fogle's logorrhoea

—p.157 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering

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