Essays about: "Don DeLillo"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Don DeLillo.

  1. 1. Tick-Tock or Not: Don DeLillo’s Point Omega and the Unreliability of Postmodern Time : A Barthesian analysis investigating the shifting meanings of ’writerly’ temporality

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Engelska

    Author : Axel Lindner Olsson; [2018]
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    Abstract : Born out of an interest in the subjective perception of time, and a desire to test the possibilities of applying the structuralist/poststructuralist analytical framework laid out by Roland Barthes in his S/Z on a contemporary work of fiction, this essay is first and foremost a foray into the shifting meanings of time in Don DeLillo’s 2010 novel Point Omega, and by extension the post-millennial era as a whole. Against a complex backdrop concerning the nature of time in postmodernity, gleaned from a review of articles by Mitchum Huehls, Frederic Jameson and Ursula K. READ MORE

  3. 2. “Bridging the Lonely Distances”: A Study of Metaphorical and Physical Voice in Don DeLillo’s The Names from the Perspective of Post-Classical Narratology

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Jakob Wingren; [2018]
    Keywords : Narratology; Voice; Audionarratology; Transmediality; Postclassical Narratology; Postmodern Fiction; Don DeLillo; The Names; Audiobooks; Language as experiential; Vocal Meaning;

    Abstract : This paper explores narratology with a focus on metaphorical and physical voice in Don DeLillo’s 1982 novel, The Names. Beginning with an overview of previous criticism on the novel and an exploration of its post-modern qualities, I progress into a discussion of meaning, and how it can be found in the narratological voice. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ideological Technology and Posthuman Conditions in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Cosmopolis

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Alexander Torell; [2018]
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  5. 4. Entering the Anthropocene Through the Great American Novel: Dark Ecology in Don DeLillo's Underworld

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Alexander Thorell; [2017]
    Keywords : DeLillo Anthropocene Underworld;

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  6. 5. Alienation in 1980s American Society : A Marxist Perspective on Don DeLillo’s, White Noise

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Metehan Inci; [2015]
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