Toxic Events: postmodernism and DeLillo's "White Noise"
Considers DeLillo's treatment of the state of postmodernism in White Noise, a novel in which rationality is always on the brink of being overwhelmed. At times conceding to the view that all modes of sense making are necessarily provisional, this is not accepted without a struggle, and several c...
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| subjects | 20th century Anonymous writers. Authors Death Desire English speaking literatures Fear French speaking and English speaking literatures History and sciences of litterature History of literature Irony Literary postmodernism Narrative plot Narratives Semiotic signs Toxicity United States White noise |
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