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Understanding David Foster Wallace
by Marshall Boswell

Understanding David Foster Wallace
by Marshall Boswell

Understanding David Foster Wallace
by Marshall Boswell

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Hebraic (en)

of Hebrew or the Hebrews

10

Hebraic creation myth

—p.10 Cynicism and Naïveté: Modernism's Third Wave (1) by Marshall Boswell
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Hebraic creation myth

—p.10 Cynicism and Naïveté: Modernism's Third Wave (1) by Marshall Boswell
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meta-ironic (en)

awareness of irony

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meta-ironic. That is...to turn irony back on itself, to make his fiction relentlessly conscious of its own self-consciousness

—p.15 Cynicism and Naïveté: Modernism's Third Wave (1) by Marshall Boswell
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meta-ironic. That is...to turn irony back on itself, to make his fiction relentlessly conscious of its own self-consciousness

—p.15 Cynicism and Naïveté: Modernism's Third Wave (1) by Marshall Boswell
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referents (en)

(noun, linguistics) the thing that a word or phrase denotes or stands for

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the correspondence of words to their referents

—p.29 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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the correspondence of words to their referents

—p.29 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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Calvinism (en)

a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin

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—p.32 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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—p.32 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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logocentric (en)

referent-based signification; truth-centric

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what Derrida would call a logocentric view of language

—p.34 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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what Derrida would call a logocentric view of language

—p.34 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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lepidoptery (en)

the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths

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a clear allusion to Nabokov's lepidoptery

—p.42 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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a clear allusion to Nabokov's lepidoptery

—p.42 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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anon (en)

soon; shortly

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about which more anon

—p.47 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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about which more anon

—p.47 The Broom of the System: Wittgenstein and the Rules of the Game (21) by Marshall Boswell
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benumbed (en)

deprived of physical or emotional feeling

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grisly and hilarious pastiche of Ellis' preposterously benumbed prose

—p.79 Girl with Curious Hair: Inside and Outside the Set (65) by Marshall Boswell
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grisly and hilarious pastiche of Ellis' preposterously benumbed prose

—p.79 Girl with Curious Hair: Inside and Outside the Set (65) by Marshall Boswell
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clinamen (en)

poetic misreading or misprision

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'Westward' enacts a clinamen

—p.103 Girl with Curious Hair: Inside and Outside the Set (65) by Marshall Boswell
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'Westward' enacts a clinamen

—p.103 Girl with Curious Hair: Inside and Outside the Set (65) by Marshall Boswell
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ultimacies (en)

(noun, plural) the state or quality of being ultimate

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the felt ultimacies of our time

a quote from John Barth in "The Literature of Exhaustion"

—p.109 Girl with Curious Hair: Inside and Outside the Set (65) by John Barth
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the felt ultimacies of our time

a quote from John Barth in "The Literature of Exhaustion"

—p.109 Girl with Curious Hair: Inside and Outside the Set (65) by John Barth
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