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"Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference and the Body
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hysterical realism
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a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other (see DeLillo, Pynchon, DFW, Zadie Smith)
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James Wood suggested the term "hysterical realism"
on DFW's writing style. she thinks "radical realism" (via Tom LeClair) is better
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James Wood suggested the term "hysterical realism"
on DFW's writing style. she thinks "radical realism" (via Tom LeClair) is better
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decoct
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extract the essence from (something) by heating or boiling it
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He struggles to decide whether rap merely represents the decocted-and-simplified desires of the other, or whether it in fact represents the reality of the other
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He struggles to decide whether rap merely represents the decocted-and-simplified desires of the other, or whether it in fact represents the reality of the other
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synecdoche
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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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whether, in other words, rap is a stereotype or a synecdoche?
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whether, in other words, rap is a stereotype or a synecdoche?
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alterity
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(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation
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Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.
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Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.
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dialectic
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a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments
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Lenore embodies the kind of Hegelian dialectic of servitude characteristic of Wallace's engagement with ideas of identity and connection
since Lenore's identity is mostly shaped by her relations with men around her
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Lenore embodies the kind of Hegelian dialectic of servitude characteristic of Wallace's engagement with ideas of identity and connection
since Lenore's identity is mostly shaped by her relations with men around her
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abjection
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(noun) a low or downcast state; degradation / (noun) the act of making abject; humbling rejection
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a young woman's voluntary abjection of her subjectivity in the face of a violent sexual attack
on Brief Interview #20
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a young woman's voluntary abjection of her subjectivity in the face of a violent sexual attack
on Brief Interview #20
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