It is the liminal space between sincerity and truth that the short fiction so precisely depicts

the soporific death by comfort of contemporary America as embodied in the eponymous film

failing better is the only way to make (contingent, endlessly protean) meaning

a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships

It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world

We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time

Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel

The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature

a sort of iteration of the dialethic imperative of deconstruction, such that every text, every narrative, every theory, contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction

This strategy, which I have termed "skeletal narrative," is one whereby Wallace destabilizes a narrative by means of elements embedded within the narrative itself