English 3650 Lecture 2: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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Literary techniques of contemporary lit - especially in david foster wallace. They do not typically follow traditional sentence structure and sentence length. This is a way to play with the text and get a point across. Helps to add depth to a text, much like a tangent. Through this, he displaces the normal way of writing. This is a method or mode of behaviour represented by an author. Colbert; it makes fun of the absurdity of the patriotism in american media. This is when the form of what you are examining is reproduced. This is when it is almost indistinguishable from the original subject. This helps to critique, but there is almost a sense of love there. It is a little more complex in this way. His book is deliberately destabilizing, vague at some points. It is not a text that is telling you what to think.
