parochial
(en)
relating to a church parish; having a limited or narrow outlook or scope
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anodyne
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(noun) a painkilling drug or medicine
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Among Wallace's notes for The Pale King are scattered references to Walker Percy's nonfiction, specifically to his volume The Message in the Bottle [...] the essay from Percy's book that most directly engages with The Pale King is "The Man on the Train" [...]
Percy begins the essay by identifying his focus upon the "literature of alienation", which is of course the title of a class Fogle takes (184). But Percy's argument is that this body of literature is, in fact, an inverted category.
[...]
In this imaginative union, I'd suggest, there's a clear precedent for Wallace's own belief in fiction's ability to invert loneliness [...]
read his stuff. about aesthetic reversal of alienation (diff between an alienated person, and someone reading about an alienated person; the latter is able to transcend the alienation)
Among Wallace's notes for The Pale King are scattered references to Walker Percy's nonfiction, specifically to his volume The Message in the Bottle [...] the essay from Percy's book that most directly engages with The Pale King is "The Man on the Train" [...]
Percy begins the essay by identifying his focus upon the "literature of alienation", which is of course the title of a class Fogle takes (184). But Percy's argument is that this body of literature is, in fact, an inverted category.
[...]
In this imaginative union, I'd suggest, there's a clear precedent for Wallace's own belief in fiction's ability to invert loneliness [...]
read his stuff. about aesthetic reversal of alienation (diff between an alienated person, and someone reading about an alienated person; the latter is able to transcend the alienation)
putative
(en)
generally considered or reputed to be; alleged; presumed
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ephebes
(en)
(in ancient Greece) a young man of 18–20 years undergoing military training
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summative
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a type of assessment of participants where the focus is on the outcome of a program
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canted
(en)
in a slanting or oblique position
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stygian
(en)
(adjective) extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding; refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades in Greek mythology;
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Erebus
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(Greek mythology) the primordial god of darkness; the shadowy realm between Earth and Hades in Homeric myth
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epigraph
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a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter, intended to suggest its theme
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dictum
(en)
a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source
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multifarious
(en)
having many varied parts or aspects; multifaceted
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