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"Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication
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eisegesis
(en)
the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text
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this articulation on Wallace's part seems more eisegetical or even projective than accurate
on DFW saying that Wittgenstein was motivated by a horror of solipsism
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this articulation on Wallace's part seems more eisegetical or even projective than accurate
on DFW saying that Wittgenstein was motivated by a horror of solipsism
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7 years, 5 months ago
abrogation
(en)
the repeal or abolition of a law, right, or agreement
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Like Barth, Wallace retained a belief in the author's power and responsibility [...] stopping short of wholesale mort d'author abrogation.
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Like Barth, Wallace retained a belief in the author's power and responsibility [...] stopping short of wholesale mort d'author abrogation.
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7 years, 5 months ago
liminal
(en)
ambiguous; occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold
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It is the liminal space between sincerity and truth that the short fiction so precisely depicts
esp his tendency to use first-person and even self-representative narrators
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7 years, 5 months ago
It is the liminal space between sincerity and truth that the short fiction so precisely depicts
esp his tendency to use first-person and even self-representative narrators
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7 years, 5 months ago
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[...] In Oneself as Another, the published version of his Gifford Lectures, Ricoeur posits the existence of two separate and opposing strands of individual identity, the idem and the ipse. In Ricoeur's conception of the self, "the narrative constructs the identity of the character"; we use stories about ourselves to make sense of the world and our place in it.
ipse (who one is) is selfhood; idem is sameness, what the self consists of? apparently Infinite Jest specifically mentions the annual Gifford Lecture series, which may be a reference to Ricoeur
[...] In Oneself as Another, the published version of his Gifford Lectures, Ricoeur posits the existence of two separate and opposing strands of individual identity, the idem and the ipse. In Ricoeur's conception of the self, "the narrative constructs the identity of the character"; we use stories about ourselves to make sense of the world and our place in it.
ipse (who one is) is selfhood; idem is sameness, what the self consists of? apparently Infinite Jest specifically mentions the annual Gifford Lecture series, which may be a reference to Ricoeur
soporific
(en)
(adjective) causing or tending to cause sleep / (adjective) tending to dull awareness or alertness / (adjective) of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy / (noun) a soporific agent / (noun) hypnotic
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the soporific death by comfort of contemporary America as embodied in the eponymous film
on IJ
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the soporific death by comfort of contemporary America as embodied in the eponymous film
on IJ
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7 years, 5 months ago
protean
(en)
(adjective) of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms / (adjective) displaying great diversity or variety; versatile
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failing better is the only way to make (contingent, endlessly protean) meaning
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failing better is the only way to make (contingent, endlessly protean) meaning
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