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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
by Marshall Boswell

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Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing"
by Marshall Boswell

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DFW had 9 books published at time of death. 3 story collections: GCH, BI, O; 4 nonfiction: Supposedly, Consider, Signifying, Everything and More; 2 novels: IJ, Broom. 3 posthumous: TPK, Flesh, This is Water (FTL not mentioned; doesn't count as a book I guess). many of the essays here are from the 2011 Wallace conference in Belgium, organized by Toon Staes.

Boswell, M. (2014). Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing". In ? David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 6-22

synecdoche (en)

a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the name of the material for the thing made (as boards for stage)

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they necessarily make extensive use of synecdoche

quoting Edward Mendelson's essay on Gravity's Rainbow (p30)

—p.viii missing author
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they necessarily make extensive use of synecdoche

quoting Edward Mendelson's essay on Gravity's Rainbow (p30)

—p.viii missing author
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heterodox (en)

unorthodox

viii

its sprawling treatment of such heterodox themes

on The Broom of the System

—p.viii by Marshall Boswell
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its sprawling treatment of such heterodox themes

on The Broom of the System

—p.viii by Marshall Boswell
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writ large (en)

clear and obvious, in a stark or exaggerated form

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—p.ix by Marshall Boswell
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—p.ix by Marshall Boswell
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mediated (en)

intervened with, through an intermediary

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she's receiving heavily mediated data

quoted from Conversations With p. 34

—p.ix by David Foster Wallace
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she's receiving heavily mediated data

quoted from Conversations With p. 34

—p.ix by David Foster Wallace
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Sierpinski gasket (en)

a fractal and attractive fixed set with the overall shape of an equilateral triangle, subdivided recursively into smaller equilateral triangles

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Wallace revealed that he structured Infinite Jest like a Sierpinski gasket

—p.x by Marshall Boswell
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Wallace revealed that he structured Infinite Jest like a Sierpinski gasket

—p.x by Marshall Boswell
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heteroglossia (en)

the presence of multiple voices or expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work.

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Wallace's dialogue owes a debt both to Socratic inquiry and to Dostoevsky's heteroglossia

—p.xi by Marshall Boswell
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Wallace's dialogue owes a debt both to Socratic inquiry and to Dostoevsky's heteroglossia

—p.xi by Marshall Boswell
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teleological (en)

the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

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between two linguistic and narrative teleological poles

—p.xi by Marshall Boswell
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between two linguistic and narrative teleological poles

—p.xi by Marshall Boswell
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ekphrasis (en)

a rhetorical term originally taught to Greek students as a way of bringing the experience of an object to a listener or reader through highly detailed descriptive writing

xii

Wallace's use of ekphrasis in the context of representing film

—p.xii by Marshall Boswell
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Wallace's use of ekphrasis in the context of representing film

—p.xii by Marshall Boswell
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