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apophrades (en)

a term defined by literary critic Harold Bloom as "return of the dead"; the author is encumbered by his previous state of solitude and holds his work open for inspection with that of his predecessors

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apophrades


David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
by David Hering

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
by David Hering

David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
by David Hering


Apophrades, whereby 'the mighty dead return, but they return in our colours, and speaking in our voices'

—p.18 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering
unknown
7 years, 8 months ago

performs a kind of apophrades whereby

—p.144 Finality: 'Not Even Close to Complete': The Many Forms of The Pale King (123) by David Hering
notable
7 years, 7 months ago