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Death, time and mortality in the later novels of Don DeLillo /
by Wolf, Philipp,
Series: Routledge research in American literature and culture Published by : Routledge, (New York, NY :) Physical details: ix, 184 p. ISBN: 103226795X Subject(s): DeLillo, Don %Criticism and interpretation. | Death in literature. | American literature | Novels | Literary criticism. Year: 2022| Item type | Location | Call Number | Status | Notes | Date Due |
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AUM Main Library English Collections Hall | 823.54 W853 (Browse Shelf) | Available | 202500085 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- White Noise: The Inconceivability of Death, Hitler and the Supermarket -- Underworld and 'Terror Management': Apocalypse, the Bomb, Cold War, Crowds -- The Body Artist: Death, Mourning, Time and the 'Humanity of Man' -- Cosmopolis: Cybercapitalism, Alienation and Death -- Falling Man -- Point Omega: 'When time stops, so do we': The Aesthetics of Disappearance -- Zero K: The Ideology and Aesthetics of Immortality -- The Silence and the Death of Civilization.
"This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise, in which the fear of death dominates the protagonists most hauntingly. The study covers eight novels which mark the development of one of the most philosophical and prestigious novelists writing in English"--
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