Sökning: "DeLillo"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade ordet 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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Engelska

   Författare :Axel Lindner Olsson; [2018]
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   Sammanfattning : 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

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

   Kandidat-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

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

   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

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

   Master-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Författare :Alexander Torell; [2018]
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5. 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 samhälle

   Författare :Alexander Thorell; [2017]
   Nyckelord :DeLillo Anthropocene Underworld;

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7. 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)

   Författare :Lotta Bergström; [2017]
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   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