he has been widely hailed as a genius, a visionary, a clarion voice

The term "dialogic" here, and elsewhere in this study, is intentionally ambiguous. It refers both to Bakhtinian dialogism--that is, pertaining to double-voicedness, either narrative or linguistic--and to the state of being in dialogue.

the fundamental unbridgeability of the gap between self and other is reinforced. That gap entails alterity, the nexus of subjectivity in the objectof communication that cannot be reached by communicative intent

Barry Dingle's homunculus never achieves his telos

The teleological imperative of postmodernism is to will its own decline, to question itself into silence, which is Wallace's central problem with it.

I advocate a reading that moves away from the inclination to sui generis reading and toward a sense of him as a writer deeply embedded in literary and cultural history

challenging the too-frequent tendency toward hagiographical, sui generis readings

the comedy of ungoverned infant volubility

for whom that anti-teleology is integrally related to his broader project for literature

In Of Grammatology, Derrida introduced his reading of the Heideggerian strategy of overwriting, which he called "sous-rature."