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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"DeLillo"”.
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Postwar Media Manifestations and Don DeLillo
… on postwar American culture is undeniable. Don DeLillo's fiction is often a commentary on that influence. Hyperreality, Simulacra, Consumerism, and News Addiction are all regular themes in DeLillo's novels; this paper explores all of these concepts through the lens of media theory. Special …
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Models of consciousness in the novels of Don Delillo
This thesis argues that an appreciation of Don DeLillo's engagement with the problems of post-war philosophy of mind is essential to a full understanding of his work. It suggests that he examines various forms of scepticism that prevail in the postmodern treatment of consciousness and traces the …
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The Signatory Imagination: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Don DeLillo
… wake, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and Don DeLillo all produce texts that both engage with Joyce's novels and think carefully about the potential of the signature as a material object. My first chapter, 'James Joyce's Signatures', explores how nineteenth-century developments in graphology …
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"Like a Donut Maker, Only Slower": Don Delillo's Advice to Writers
… acts as a compendium and an analysis of DeLillo's writerly counsel, with an eye to how this advice might promise fresh ways to consider and analyze his fictions. Chapter one focuses on DeLillo's statements to the larger writing world - advice found in interviews and published essays. …
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Randall, or The Painted Grape and Beyond Ekphrasis: The Role and Function of Artworks in the Novels of Don DeLillo
… and Function of Artworks in the Novels of Don DeLillo’. Randall, or The Painted Grape is a novel about the Young British Artists. It takes the form of a fictitious biographical memoir of an artist, Randall, written by his friend Vincent, after Randall’s death. This memoir is interpolated with …
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Fracturing Histories: Understanding the writing of Narratives in a Visual Culture through Don DeLillo's Fiction
… creates a dreaming space all of us occupy. (Don DeLillo, The Word, the Image and the Gun: BBC Omnibus, 27/09/1991). The novelistic works of Don DeLillo repeatedly examine contemporary subjectivity and its relationship with the moving image. This concern resonates throughout the author's fiction …
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LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS
… as Richard Brautigan, William Gaddis and Don DeLillo, continually re-interpreted American fiction in regard to its Anglo-American tradition and explored the nature of Consumerism and Corporatism within American society and how such writers refuted the implications and ideals of the American …
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Il vero e il convenzionale: rappresentazioni della realtà nel romanzo contemporaneo
… «innovativa», delineata da "Underworld" di Don DeLillo, che mette l'accento sul processo costruttivo, una «tradizionale», espressa nel saggio in due varianti («Le particelle elementari» e «Le benevole»), il cui scopo è quello di riattivare meccanismi narrativi ottocenteschi, considerati per …
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The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
… in the literary works of Edgar Allan Poe, Don DeLillo, and Mary Shelley. It examines the ways in which artistic renderings alternately assimilate, resist, and/or critique dominant philosophical, psychological, and scientific discourses about the self and its divisions. This dissertation argues …
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An anarchy of man: Cartesian and post-Cartesian representations of the self in selected Western literature
… work of the contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo and in my own An Anarchy of Man.
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Postmodern Alienation: Projecting Worlds/Feigning Subjects
… or to its own fragmentation, I turn to Don DeLillo's White Noise and Libra. Avoiding a supposedly ludic schizophrenia that privileges differences over unities, while also recognizing that individual identity, far from being impregnable and sealed, has suffered under the onslaught of …
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… and film, ranging from Jack London to Don DeLillo and Martin Scorsese, that offers an historicist interpretation of China. The emergence of this new orientalism---documented at length for the first time here---has multiple consequences for Cultural, American and Area Studies, and for …
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Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries
… American novels of Pynchon, Acker, Reed, Auster, DeLillo, and McElroy as well as the two recent films Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor and their dramatization of the production of twentieth-century social space. I approach these works as metaphysical detective stories which evoke the classic …
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Rewriting Eastern Wisdom: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from Jack Kerouac to Maxine Hong Kingston
… Arts and Paranoia: Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo," shows how Pynchon's Vineland and DeLillo's Underworld demystify secret Eastern knowledge in order to challenge the assumption that secrecy warrants paranoia. My third chapter, "Asian Religion and African Dreams: Alice Walker and Charles …
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Interrogating History or Making History? Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
… by Kurt Vonnegut and <em>Libra</em> by Don DeLillo. I use my examination of these two novels as a means of analyzing the relationship between fiction and the epistemology of history. In my analysis, I point out the tendency of much postmodern fiction to paradoxically question supposedly …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… thesis examines four novels: Falling Man (Don DeLillo, 2007), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005), Man in the Dark (Paul Auster, 2008) and The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006), and four films: A History of Violence (d. David Cronenberg, 2005), In the Valley of Elah (d. …
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