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I discuss some of my thoughts about the footnote as a referential device with help from footnotes from “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace.
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Sources:
Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2sdbpi/i_am_very_upset_with_infinite_jest/
Abbott, Barbara. Reference. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Anderson, Bruce. “The Decline and Fall of Footnotes.” STANFORD Magazine, Feb. 1997, stanfordmag.org/contents/the-decline-and-fall-of-footnotes.
Clark, Herbert H., and Catherine R. Marshall. “Definite reference and mutual knowledge.” (1981).
Duckworth, Angela. Grit: the Power of Passion and Perseverance. Scribner, 2018.
Grafton, Anthony. The Footnote: A Curious History, Harvard UP, 1997.
Kennedy, Amelia. “A Brief History of the Footnote – from the Middle Ages to Today: Quetext Blog.” Quetext, 21 Sept. 2019, www.quetext.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-footnote.
Lambrecht, Knud. “The Mental Representations of Discourse Referents.” Information Structure and Sentence Form, Aug. 1994, pp. 74–116., doi:10.1017/cbo9780511620607.004.
Sacks, Oliver W. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Picador, 2018.
Zerby, Chuck. The Devil’s Details: A History of Footnotes, Touchstone, 2002.
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