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Don DeLillo's "Underworld": The artful reality of simulacra

Author : Otmar Lichtenwörther
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638307212
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Don DeLillo's "Underworld": The artful reality of simulacra written by Otmar Lichtenwörther and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: ÿ (1), University of Graz (Institute for American Studies), language: English, abstract: Underworld (1997), DeLillos elfter Roman, ist bis dato sein ehrgeizigstes Projekt. In diesem 827-seitigen Nachruf auf den Kalten Krieg vereint und verdichtet er viele der Themen seiner schriftstellerischen Karriere: Verschwörungstheorien und Formen der Paranoia, atomare Bedrohung, das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen fiktionalem Erzählen und Historiographie, die Fragmentarisierung der grands récits, Onomastik und die Macht der Sprache; der Einfluss des Films, des Fernsehens und der Werbung auf unsere alltägliche Wirklichkeitswahrnehmung wie auch auf künstlerisches Schaffen, Jean Baudrillards Simulakrum; Gewalt und die unterschwellige Faszination, die die Medienberichterstattung über Naturkatastrophen, Terrorakte, Serienmörder, Amokläufer, Flugzeugabstürze und dergleichen auf uns ausübt; Sport; Homophobie, der Konsumwahn und die Macht des multinationalen Kapitals; Kunst und die Frage, ob subversive Kunst, Kunst die gesellschaftlich noch etwas bewegen kann, in einem soziokulturellen Rahmen, den wir grob mit den Begriffen Postmoderne oder Spätkapitalismus umreißen können, noch möglich ist; und schließlich noch Müll als empirisches Faktum und als große historische, psychoanalytische und ästhetische Metapher. Eine Metapher, die fast jeden Aspekt des Romans in sich vereinigt. Müll ist im buchstäblichen Sinne und als Metapher nahezu allgegenwärtig und dient in der Diskussion der vielschichtigen und weitverzweigten historischen, politischen und ästhetischen Implikationen von Underworld als allumfassendes Bild. Der aus unser aller Alltag wohlbekannte Begriff des Recycling, und Containment, ein Wort, das etwa im Begriff „Müllcontainer“ schon längst Bestandteil auch der deutschen Sprache ist, bilden dabei das Grundgerüst dieser Betrachtung.

Don DeLillo's Underworld

Author : John Duvall
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826452412
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Don DeLillo's Underworld written by John Duvall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.

White Noise

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440674477
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book White Noise written by Don DeLillo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over there lives, an "airborne toxic event" that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys—the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constitute the music of American magic and dread.

Underworld

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Underworld written by Don DeLillo and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1950s teenage hood from New York is transformed by the Jesuits into a respectable man, managing hazardous waste. A portrait of the decade from the viewpoint of the garbage industry.

Libra

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101042176
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Libra written by Don DeLillo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.

Submundo

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788477651857
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Submundo written by Don DeLillo and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Running Dog

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330530178
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Running Dog written by Don DeLillo and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid, a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall – with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably, more than one want it. Unfortunately for Moll, in the black-market world of erotica, the currency is blackmail, torture and corruption; and no price is too high. As the paranoia builds and the combatants lose sight of their motives, their souls, even the object itself, Don DeLillo reveals the terrible truth behind our acquisitiveness in Running Dog – a masterful thriller from an award-winning novelist.

The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo

Author : Elise Martucci
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135861013
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo written by Elise Martucci and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo’s novels in an attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of postmodernism and environmentalism. Martucci argues that although DeLillo is responding to and engaging with a postmodern culture of simulacra and simulation, his novels do not reflect a postmodernist theory of the "end of nature." Rather, his fiction emphasizes the lasting significance of the natural world and alerts us to the dangers of destroying it. In order to support this argument, Martucci examines DeLillo’s novels in the context of traditional American literary representations of the environment, especially through the lens of Leo Marx’s discussion of the conflict between technology and nature found in traditional American literature. She demonstrate that DeLillo’s fiction explores the way in which new technologies alter perceptions and mediate reality to a further extent than earlier technologies; however, she argues that he keeps the material world at the forefront of his novels, thereby illuminating the environmental implications of these technologies. Through close readings of Americana, The Names, White Noise, and Underworld, and discussions of postmodernist and ecocritical theories, this project engages with current criticism of DeLillo, postmodernist fiction, and environmental criticism.

Players

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307817164
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Players written by Don DeLillo and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."--New York Times Book Review

Americana

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101659858
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Americana written by Don DeLillo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-07-06 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “DeLillo’s swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line.”—Rolling Stone The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American Dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a top television executive. David’s world is made up of the images that flicker across America’s screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. When, at the height of his success, the dream (and the dream-making) become a nightmare, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture and to impose a pattern on America’s—and his own—past, present, and future.

The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501345060
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo written by Graley Herren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo is the first book devoted to this dimension of DeLillo's art. It is also the first book to identify and analyze a signature DeLillo motif: the embedded author. In multiple novels, short stories, and plays, DeLillo inserts a character subtly implied as the creator of the very narrative we are reading or watching. Spanning his entire career but focusing primarily on his work from Underworld (1997) to Zero K (2016), The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo breaks important new ground in DeLillo studies.

The Day Room

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822202783
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Day Room written by Don DeLillo and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1988-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The play opens in a brightly lit hospital room occupied by two men. One, the amiable Budge, does Tai Chi exercises while trying, without much success, to strike up a conversation with his taciturn roommate, Wyatt. Then, slowly but inexorably, t

The Angel Esmeralda

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451658079
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Angel Esmeralda written by Don DeLillo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the greatest writers of our time, his first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011, chronicling—and foretelling—three decades of American life Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, these nine stories are a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo’s iconic voice, from the rich, startling, jazz-infused rhythms of his early work to the spare, distilled, monastic language of the later stories. In “Creation,” a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can’t get off the island—flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In “Human Moments in World War III,” two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence and reporting to Colorado Command, hear the voices of American radio, from a half century earlier. In the title story, Sisters Edgar and Grace, nuns working the violent streets of the South Bronx, confirm the neighborhood’s miracle, the apparition of a dead child, Esmeralda. Nuns, astronauts, athletes, terrorists and travelers, the characters in The Angel Esmeralda propel themselves into the world and define it. DeLillo’s sentences are instantly recognizable, as original as the splatter of Jackson Pollock or the luminous rectangles of Mark Rothko. These nine stories describe an extraordinary journey of one great writer whose prescience about world events and ear for American language changed the literary landscape.

Network Aesthetics

Author : Patrick Jagoda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634665X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Network Aesthetics written by Patrick Jagoda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “network” is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word’s ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network’s role as a way for people to construct and manage their world—and their view of themselves. Each chapter considers how popular media and artistic forms make sense of decentralized network metaphors and infrastructures. Patrick Jagoda first examines narratives from the 1990s and 2000s, including the novel Underworld, the film Syriana, and the television series The Wire, all of which play with network forms to promote reflection on domestic crisis and imperial decline in contemporary America. Jagoda then looks at digital media that are interactive, nonlinear, and dependent on connected audiences to show how recent approaches, such as those in the videogame Journey, open up space for participatory and improvisational thought. Contributing to fields as diverse as literary criticism, digital studies, media theory, and American studies, Network Aesthetics brilliantly demonstrates that, in today’s world, networks are something that can not only be known, but also felt, inhabited, and, crucially, transformed.

Scars of the Spirit

Author : Dr. Geoffrey Hartman
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250103614
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Scars of the Spirit written by Dr. Geoffrey Hartman and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating collection of essays, noted cultural critic Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects the way we can understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such issues as the fantasy of total and perfect information available on the Internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all daytime talk shows, and how we can understand what is "true" in biographical and testimonial writing. And, what, he asks, is the ethical point of all this personal testimony? What has it really taught us? Underlying the entire book is a question of how the Holocaust has shaped the possibilities for truth and for the writing of an authentic life story in today's world, and how we can approach the world in a meaningful way. Hartman produces a meditation on how an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of art and writing may help us to answer these questions of meaning.

Don DeLillo

Author : David Cowart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820342262
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Don DeLillo written by David Cowart and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don DeLillo, author of twelve novels and winner of the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize, has begun to rival Thomas Pynchon as the definitive postmodern novelist. Always thought-provoking and occasionally controversial, DeLillo has become the voice of the bimillennial moment. Charting DeLillo's emergence as a contemporary novelist of major stature, David Cowart discusses each of DeLillo's twelve novels, including his most recent work, The Body Artist (2001). Rejecting the idea that DeLillo lacks affinities across the cultural spectrum, Cowart argues that DeLillo's work invites comparison with that of wide range of antecedents, including Dunbar, Whitman, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Hemingway, Joyce, Rilke, and Eliot. At the same time, Cowart explores the ways in which DeLillo's art anticipates, parallels, and contests ideas that have become the common currency of poststructuralist theory. The major site of DeLillo's engagement with postmodernism, Cowart argues, is language, which DeLillo represents as more mysterious--numinous even--than current theory allows. For DeLillo, language remains what Cowart calls "the ground of all making." Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language is a provocative investigation of the most compelling issues of contemporary fiction.

Ratner's Star

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509837876
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Ratner's Star written by Don DeLillo and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground. There, away from the rest of the world, this panel of estranged, demented and lovable scientists work together on a secret scientific project: deciphering a mysterious transmission received from outer space, from just near Ratner's Star. Written in Don DeLillo's characteristically mesmerizing prose, Ratner's Star is a brilliantly observed, funny and deeply thought-provoking novel which explores the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future.