this tension between veneration and excoriation, often expressed in the same breath, a kind of schizoaffective critical articulation, is a dominant motif in his engagement with recent cultural shifts

mirrors processes of adolescent self-definition, functioning as an anodyne of sorts to infantile narcisissm, refusing to look beyond the borders of its own importance

to limn and to limit

Claude Sylvanshine in The Pale King, whose surname refers to a dappling of sunlight through leaves in autumn

An antinomy is a problem of language similar to a paradox

unwilling to allow the sequor ad absurdum approach espoused b Lenore Sr.

Norris points out that Rorty is less trenchant than Baudrillard

it can put "ironists" in danger of becoming what Sartre called "metastable"

this articulation on Wallace's part seems more eisegetical or even projective than accurate

Like Barth, Wallace retained a belief in the author's power and responsibility [...] stopping short of wholesale mort d'author abrogation.