Philipp Wolf

Death, Time and Mortality in the Later Novels of Don DeLillo (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000587746
• Artikelnr.: 63677739

Autorenporträt

Philipp Wolf is an adjunct professor of English and American literature at the University of Giessen in Germany (Hesse). He has widely published on early modern literature, modernist and postmodernist literature, as well as on theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: White Noise: The Inconceivability of Death, Hitler and the Supermarket

Chapter 3: Underworld and "Terror Management": Apocalypse, the Bomb, Cold War, Crowds

Chapter 4: The Body Artist: Death, Mourning, Time and the "Humanity of Man"

Chapter 5: Cosmopolis: Cybercapitalism, Alienation and Death

Chapter 6: Falling Man

Chapter 7: Point Omega: "When Time Stops, so Do We": The Aesthetics of Disappearance

Chapter 8: Zero K: The Ideology and Aesthetics of Immortality

Chapter 9: The Silence and the Death of Civilization

Epilog