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David Hering
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Representations of Trauma in David Foster Wallace's Oblivion
Thomas Tracey
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Thomas Tracey
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notes
mordant
(en)
(adjective) biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style; incisive
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an "irony-free" antidote to the mordant rut of the postmodern condition
on AA in IJ
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an "irony-free" antidote to the mordant rut of the postmodern condition
on AA in IJ
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[...] What's so terrifying about the narrator's nightmares of adult life, over and above the supernatural horrors of The Exorcist, consists in the grim fact that there can be no maternal reassurance that there exists "nothing like what you just dreamed in the real world" (106).
on Smithy
[...] What's so terrifying about the narrator's nightmares of adult life, over and above the supernatural horrors of The Exorcist, consists in the grim fact that there can be no maternal reassurance that there exists "nothing like what you just dreamed in the real world" (106).
on Smithy
aver
(en)
(verb) to verify or prove to be true in pleading a cause / (verb) to allege or assert in pleading / (verb) to declare positively
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Wallace's narratives aver that a self-licensed ignorance of one's situation/condition can all too readily be transformed into a kind of moral oblivion
on Oblivion
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Wallace's narratives aver that a self-licensed ignorance of one's situation/condition can all too readily be transformed into a kind of moral oblivion
on Oblivion
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connubial
(en)
(adjective) of or relating to the married state; conjugal
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syncopated
(en)
(adjective) cut short; abbreviated / (adjective) marked by or exhibiting syncopation
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syncopated by commas
on a passage in Oblivion with lots of commas
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syncopated by commas
on a passage in Oblivion with lots of commas
confirm
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abysm
(en)
(noun) abyss
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emerging from the dark backward and abysm of the human mind
this line seems kinda ESL tbh
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emerging from the dark backward and abysm of the human mind
this line seems kinda ESL tbh
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censorious
(en)
(adjective) marked by or given to censure; severely critical of others
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censoriously loaded pun on the architectural term "banishment"
on Randall fantasizing about saving Audrey in Oblivion
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censoriously loaded pun on the architectural term "banishment"
on Randall fantasizing about saving Audrey in Oblivion
notable
8 years ago