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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Don 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
… Joyce's 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 …
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Randall, or The Painted Grape and Beyond Ekphrasis: The Role and Function of Artworks in the Novels of Don DeLillo
… Role 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 …
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LIBERTY HORSES (A NOVEL): NARRATIVE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS IN POSTMODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TEXTS
… such 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 …
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Il vero e il convenzionale: rappresentazioni della realtà nel romanzo contemporaneo
… che uscendo dal postmoderno gli scrittori tendono a due modalità di rappresentazione del reale: una «veridica» in cui si cerca di sovrapporre il più possibile mondo attuale e mondo d'invenzione (fino al caso, estremo, delle «autofinzioni» di Siti) instaurando tra i due una relazione di …
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Fracturing Histories: Understanding the writing of Narratives in a Visual Culture through Don DeLillo's Fiction
… Film 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 …
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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 …
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An anarchy of man: Cartesian and post-Cartesian representations of the self in selected Western literature
… the work of the contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo and in my own An Anarchy of Man.
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Sinological-Orientalism: The Production of the West's Post -Mao China
… media, fiction, 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 …
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Rewriting Eastern Wisdom: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from Jack Kerouac to Maxine Hong Kingston
… "Secret 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 …
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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
… The 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 …
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Apocalypse and elegy in contemporary american fiction
… millennial novels of Joyce Carol Oates (Blonde), Don DeLillo (Underworld), and Philip Roth (American Pastoral), since all three, written at the century's end, are at once apocalyptic and elegiac in tone, and comprise a useful trilogy tor giving voice to the fracturedness of the American …
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Cinematic Writing: Thinking Between The Viewer And The Screen
… used by three writers: William S. Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. It establishes how cinema has impacted on and been used as a resource to alter and transform their writing practice. The central claim of my project is that the visual and text-based cinematic techniques used by …
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Concepts of the global in contemporary culture : figuring the totality
… Cronenberg, Mark Danielewski, Gilles Deleuze, Don DeLillo, Félix Guattari, Michael Hardt, Kazuo Ishiguro, Fredric Jameson, Charlie Kaufman, Patrick Keiller, David Lynch, Antonio Negri, Peter Sloterdijk, Ali Smith, and Bernard Stiegler. The project locates prominent and significant concepts of …
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