Sökning: "Don DeLillo"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden Don DeLillo.
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
Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/EngelskaSammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
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
Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. Ideological Technology and Posthuman Conditions in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Cosmopolis
Master-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/EngelskaSammanfattning : .... LÄS MER
4. Entering the Anthropocene Through the Great American Novel: Dark Ecology in Don DeLillo's Underworld
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälleSammanfattning : .... LÄS MER
5. Evigt liv till varje pris : En posthumanistisk tematisk studie av Don DeLillos roman Zero K
Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to analyse the posthuman themes in Don DeLillo’s novel Zero K (2016). The themes focused upon are death in a posthuman context, and the creation of a new kind of human being. From a critical posthumanist perspective the novel’s underlying critique of contemporary society is also identified and analysed. LÄS MER