Don Delillo S Underworld The Artful Reality Of Simulacra

Author : Otmar Lichtenwörther
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638307215

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Don DeLillo's "Underworld": The artful reality of simulacra by Otmar Lichtenwörther Pdf

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.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416548645

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Underworld by Don DeLillo Pdf

Our lives, our half-century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome -- the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World -- shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deep into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture -- from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam. A generation's master spirits come and go. Lenny Bruce cracking desperate jokes, Mick Jagger with his devil strut, J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the curiously connected materials of the culture. Condoms, bombs, Chevy Bel Airs and miracle sites on the Web. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

Author : John Duvall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826452418

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Don DeLillo's Underworld by John Duvall Pdf

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.

Author : Elise Martucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135861018

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The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo by Elise Martucci Pdf

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.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440674471

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White Noise by Don DeLillo Pdf

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.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101042175

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Libra by Don DeLillo Pdf

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.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141905884

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Americana by Don DeLillo Pdf

Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307817167

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Players by Don DeLillo Pdf

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

Author : Dr. Geoffrey Hartman
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781250103611

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Scars of the Spirit by Dr. Geoffrey Hartman Pdf

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.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : 847765185X

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Submundo by Don DeLillo Pdf

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501345067

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The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo by Graley Herren Pdf

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.

Author : Patricia Schneider
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640727957

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Satire in DeLillo's "White Noise" by Patricia Schneider Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Freiburg (Englisches Seminar), course: Proseminar I: Postmodern American Novel, language: English, abstract: Satire, sarcasm, irony - these are all related stylistic devices but there are crucial differences. Both satire and sarcasm generally ridicule human behaviour but only the satire implies the intent of improving the ridiculed behaviour. Irony on the other hand includes an incongruity or a connection that goes beyond the most obvious meaning and can therefore be used to underline the ridicule of the satire or the sarcasm. In White Noise DeLillo uses the satire to ridicule human behaviour in four different respects: to satirize the human behaviour related to consumerism, to satirize the human behaviour that is determined by the media, to satirize the behaviour of the novel's characters in their role in the family and to satirize Jack's academic life by depicting the lack of seriousness in his studies. However, DeLillo not only uses the satire to ridicule the behaviour of the novel's protagonist and his family but also shows the difficulties that arise when trying to improve the satirized behaviour.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330530170

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Running Dog by Don DeLillo Pdf

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.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451658071

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The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo Pdf

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.

Author : Don DeLillo
Publisher : Giulio Einaudi Editore
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788806173999

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Underworld by Don DeLillo Pdf

Un romanzo che fa esplodere la storia, i miti e la vita quotidiana dell'America del dopoguerra e ne ricompone i resti. In una vorticosa alternanza di epoche e figure, DeLillo costruisce un puzzle di sequenze narrative dove protagonisti e comparse hanno lo stesso spazio, dove personaggi di finzione convivono con Lenny Bruce e con J. Edgar Hoover, il potente capo dell'Fbi. Seguendo i passaggi di mano di una pallina da baseball, cimelio di una famosa partita tra Giants e Dodgers, si finisce da una costa all'altra, da un'etnia all'altra, in un destino collettivo dominato dalle immagini e dai rifiuti. Scorie nucleari, pattume generico, feticci sentimentali, erotici, artistici. Un affresco dell'America di ieri, di oggi e di domani come nei migliori film di Altman, ma con in piú la forza di una scrittura che ha fatto definire questo romanzo "il capolavoro della letteratura americana contemporanea".