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Teaching American Literature: a Journal of Theory and Practice Summer 2013 (6:2) 13
Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice Summer 2013 (6:2) Who Is 'Us' and Who Is 'Them' in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis? Hossein Pirnajmuddin, University of Isfahan, I. R. Iran Abbasali Borhan, Shiraz University, I. R. Iran Abstract Don DeLillo, in his first post-9/11 novel Cosmopolis, addresses the question of (terrorist) Other as occupying an infiltrating position within the American society as the host community. He purports to make a diagnosis of the deficiencies inherent in the West's global capitalist system which make it "vulnerable" and exposed to the terrorists' violence. Underlying DeLillo's approach toward terrorism in this novel is the discourse of American liberal cosmopolitanism in terms of which American society is portrayed as "the land of the free;" a "hybrid" society constituted by "heterogeneous" ethnicities with different systems of values and beliefs. This dynamic multiculturalism, so is claimed, brings about clashes, gaps, and cracks within the American community as a whole and accordingly jeopardizes the solidity of American culture. What is taken for granted is validity of the governmental account of terrorism. Adopting an ambiguous position toward this discourse, DeLillo both endorses it and subverts, through parody, some of its affiliated precepts. In this article, first DeLillo's insular representation of a "Cosmopolitan" America as a "superpower" is explored and then his subliminal registration of an Orientalized other evoking 9/11 "us/them" paradigm is brought to light. Keywords: Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, American multiculturalism, us/them, Orientalism, 9/11. 1. Introduction The rippling impact of 9/11 "terrorist"1 events across American fiction has admittedly been far and wide. -
Flying Man and Falling Man: Remembering and Forgetting 9/11 Graley Herren Xavier University - Cincinnati
Xavier University Exhibit Faculty Scholarship English 2014 Flying Man and Falling Man: Remembering and Forgetting 9/11 Graley Herren Xavier University - Cincinnati Follow this and additional works at: http://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/english_faculty Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Herren, Graley, "Flying Man and Falling Man: Remembering and Forgetting 9/11" (2014). Faculty Scholarship. Paper 3. http://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/english_faculty/3 This Book Chapter/Essay is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 9 Flying Man and Falling Man Remembering and Forgetting 9 /11 Graley Herren More than a decade after the September 11 attacks, Ame~cans continue struggling to assimilate what happened on that day. This chapter consi ders how key icons, performances, and spectacles have intersected with narrative reconstructions to mediate collective memories of 9/11, within New York City, throughout the United States, and around the globe. In Cloning Tenvr: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present, W. J. T. Mitchell starts from this sound historiographical premise: "Every history is really two histories. There is the history of what actually happened, and there is the history of the perception of what happened. The first kind of history focuses on the facts and figures; the second concentrates on the images and words that define the framework within which those facts and figures make sense" (xi). What follows is an examination of that second kind of history: the perceptual frameworks for making sense of 9/11, frameworks forged by New Yorkers at Ground Zero, Americans removed from the attacks, and cultural creators and commentators from abroad. -
The Polis Artist: Don Delillo's Cosmopolis and the Politics of Literature
Bryn Mawr College Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship Political Science 2016 The oliP s Artist: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and the Politics of Literature Joel Alden Schlosser Bryn Mawr College, [email protected] Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.brynmawr.edu/polisci_pubs Part of the Philosophy Commons, and the Political Theory Commons Custom Citation J. Schlosser, “The oP lis Artist: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and Politics of Literature.” Theory & Event 19.1 (2016). This paper is posted at Scholarship, Research, and Creative Work at Bryn Mawr College. http://repository.brynmawr.edu/polisci_pubs/32 For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1/30/2016 Project MUSE - Theory & Event - The Polis Artist: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and the Politics of Literature Access provided by Bryn Mawr College [Change] Browse > Philosophy > Political Philosophy > Theory & Event > Volume 19, Issue 1, 2016 The Polis Artist: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and the Politics of Literature Joel Alden Schlosser (bio) Abstract Recent work on literature and political theory has focused on reading literature as a reflection of the damaged conditions of contemporary political life. Examining Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, this essay develops an alternative approach to the politics of literature that attends to the style and form of the novel. The form and style of Cosmopolis emphasize the novel’s own dissonance with the world it criticizes; they moreover suggest a politics of poetic worldmaking intent on eliciting collective agency over the commonness of language. -
Ordinary Madness: Don Delillo's Subject from Underworld to Point Omega
Ordinary Madness: Don DeLillo’s Subject from Underworld to Point Omega Alexander Dunst ABSTRACT This article contends that Don DeLillo’s novels from Underworld to Point Omega are cen- trally concerned with changes in the structure of subjectivity under contemporary capitalism. The essay analyzes these developments from a late Lacanian perspective: as a shift from a dominant neurosis to what Jacques-Alain Miller has called “ordinary psychosis”. Over the years, a few of DeLillo’s critics have problematized a standard account of his characters as postmodern, sug- gesting that the author was in the process of crafting “a new kind of subjectivity”. However, none of these scholars have taken the prominence of psychotic protagonists in his novels as a starting point to analyze DeLillo’s fiction. Madness thus plays an important but overlooked role in the author’s oeuvre. After briefly considering DeLillo’s earlier writing, the discussion concentrates on three representative novels: Underworld, The Body Artist and Point Omega. Where Under- world focuses on paranoia, The Body Artist moves ordinary psychosis to the center of DeLillo’s imagination, a development whose social impact is explored further in the final novel. The article counters traditional conceptions of insanity as irrational and pathological with an emphasis on the structural role madness plays in DeLillo. This reassessment counters a critical tradition that often views insanity as a sign of deep-seated illness, or opposes pathology by naively romanticizing it. The conclusion situates the analysis in the broader framework of the medical humanities. Point Omega, Don DeLillo’s latest novel, is haunted by the breakdown of social relations.1 Framed by the evocation of Douglas Gordon’s video 24 Hour Psycho, the book follows Richard Elster, a retired intellectual hired to provide justification for the Iraq War (28). -
Boredom As Disruption and Resistance in David Foster Wallace's the Pale
‘Only the bored are free’: boredom as disruption and resistance in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King. MA Thesis Adrià Puértolas Pérez Supervisor: Aylin Kuryel Academic year: 2019-2020 Faculty of Humanities Universiteit van Amsterdam A.Puértolas INDEX 1. Introduction 3 2. ‘Only the bored are free: boredom as resistance in The Pale King 8 3. ‘Awakening’: Embracing boredom against the cultural logic of late capitalism in The Pale King 21 4. Boredom, metamodernism and narratives of reconstruction in The Pale King 36 5. Conclusion 48 6. Bibliography 54 2 A.Puértolas 1. Introduction In the movie Spring Breakers (2012), by Harmony Korine, a group of young college girls travel to Florida to participate to the Spring Break, the well-known mass party. It is an escape from the monotony of university, classes, routine and the world they’ve always known: “I’m tired of seeing always the same things”, they complain as a justification for the trip. During the break, their quest for adrenaline and limit experiences quickly escalates: once the excitement of the party ceases, they end up robbing a store at gun point and getting involved with an obscure drug dealer that leads them into a full-scale shooting against a rival criminal organization. The movie seems to suggest that even the most extreme and limit experiences, as exciting and powerful as they can be, are not able to provide a steady, authentic life, some substance to hold on to, just intense chaos and violence. It is tempting to read the film as a growing realization of the limits the rebellious- Dionysian1 escape, one that seems central in the cultural logic of late capitalism; that it may have become an exhausted or sterile path towards emancipation —what the characters of the movie ultimately seek—and that, perhaps, a comeback, an acceptance of an authentic, solid and monotonous existence is desirable. -
(Im)Mortality in Don Delillo's White Noise, Cosmopolis and Zero K
LITERATURE Journal of 21st-century Writings Article How to Cite: Maffey, R., and Teo, Y., 2018. “Changing Channels of Techno- logy: Disaster and (Im)mortality in Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Cosmopolis and Zero K.” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 6(2): 6, pp. 1–23, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.74 Published: 16 April 2018 Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the double-blind process of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, which is a journal of the Open Library of Humanities. Copyright: © 2018 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distri- bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Open Access: C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings is a peer-reviewed open access journal. Digital Preservation: The Open Library of Humanities and all its journals are digitally preserved in the CLOCKSS scholarly archive service. The Open Library of Humanities is an open access non-profit publisher of scholarly articles and monographs. Maffey, R., and Teo, Y., 2018. “Changing Channels of Technology: Disaster and (Im)mortality in Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Cosmopolis LITERATURE Journal of 21st-century Writings and Zero K.” C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 6(2): 6, pp. 1–23, DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.74 ARTICLE Changing Channels of Technology: Disaster and (Im)mortality in Don DeLillo’s White Noise, Cosmopolis and Zero K Ross Maffey and Yugin Teo Bournemouth University, GB Corresponding author: Yugin Teo ([email protected]) This article examines the changing representation of technology in three of DeLillo’s novels, White Noise, Cosmopolis and Zero K, and traces the con- ceptual and philosophical developments in his writing concerning the two key themes of disaster and mortality. -
Apocalypse, Time, and Schematic Imagination in Don Delillo's the Body Artist
Angles New Perspectives on the Anglophone World 4 | 2017 Unstable States, Mutable Conditions Mutability as Counter-Plot: Apocalypse, Time, and Schematic Imagination in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist Richard Anker Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/angles/1474 DOI: 10.4000/angles.1474 ISSN: 2274-2042 Publisher Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur Electronic reference Richard Anker, « Mutability as Counter-Plot: Apocalypse, Time, and Schematic Imagination in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist », Angles [Online], 4 | 2017, Online since 01 April 2017, connection on 02 August 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/angles/1474 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/ angles.1474 This text was automatically generated on 2 August 2020. Angles. New Perspectives on the Anglophone World is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Mutability as Counter-Plot: Apocalypse, Time, and Schematic Imagination in Do... 1 Mutability as Counter-Plot: Apocalypse, Time, and Schematic Imagination in Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist Richard Anker To name mutability as a principle of order is to come as close as possible to naming the authentic temporal consciousness of the self. Paul de Man, “Time and History in Wordsworth” (94) 1 While the figure of apocalypse comes up frequently in commentaries of Don DeLillo’s fiction, rarely has it been contextualized from the perspective of the modern reception of romantic literature and the critical idiom that this reception has established. -
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative James Phelan, Peter J
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by KnowledgeBank at OSU THEORY AND INTERPRETATION OF NARRATIVE JAMES PHELAN, PETER J. RABINOWITZ, AND ROBYN WARHOL, SERIES EDITORS FOR VANESSA, MAX, AND MILLY THE RETURN OF THE OMNISCIENT NARRATOR Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction PAUL DAWSON THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS COLUMBUS Copyright © 2013 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dawson, Paul, 1972– The return of the omniscient narrator authorship and authority in twenty-first century fiction / Paul Dawson. pages cm—(Theory and interpretation of narrative) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8142-1233-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0–8142– 1233–6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Fiction—Technique. 2. Omniscience (Theory of knowledge) in literature. 3. Narration (Rhetoric) I. Title. II. Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative series. PN3355.D246 2013 808.3—dc23 2013031509 Cover design by AuthorSupport.com Text design by Juliet Williams Type set in Adobe Sabon Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48–1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction The Return of Omniscience in Contemporary Fiction 1 CHaptER 1 Omniscience and Narrative Authority 25 CHaptER 2 The Direct Address and the Ironic -
Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 6/4/2019 Surprise That Borders Have Become So Porous
Losing Earth A Recent History Nathaniel Rich An instant classic: the most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and SCIENCE conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the MCD | 4/9/2019 moral dimensions of our shared plight. 9780374191337 | $25.00 / $32.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 224 pages 4 Black-and-White Illustrations / Notes on Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate Sources | Carton Qty: 28 | 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil MARKETING fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through disinformation, propaganda, and political influence. The book carries the National review attention Print features and profiles story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our failures and Online features and profiles asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, Interest-specific media outreach: environment and ourselves. -
Don Delillo and 9/11: a Question of Response
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English English, Department of 5-2010 Don DeLillo and 9/11: A Question of Response Michael Jamieson University of Nebraska at Lincoln Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishdiss Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Jamieson, Michael, "Don DeLillo and 9/11: A Question of Response" (2010). Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English. 28. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishdiss/28 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research: Department of English by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. DON DELILLO AND 9/11: A QUESTION OF RESPONSE by Michael A. Jamieson A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Major: English Under the Supervision of Professor Marco Abel Lincoln, Nebraska May, 2010 DON DELILLO AND 9/11: A QUESTION OF RESPONSE Michael Jamieson, M.A. University of Nebraska, 2010 Advisor: Marco Abel In the wake of the attacks of September 11th, many artists struggled with how to respond to the horror. In literature, Don DeLillo was one of the first authors to pose a significant, fictionalized investigation of the day. In this thesis, Michael Jamieson argues that DeLillo’s post-9/11 work constitutes a new form of response to the tragedy. -
Mao II Ebook
MAO II PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Don DeLillo | 256 pages | 01 Jun 2016 | Pan MacMillan | 9781509837847 | English | London, United Kingdom Mao II PDF Book One day, he lets himself be photographed like Salinger it made him popular until he becomes involved as a spokesperson for a Swiss writer being held hostage in Beirut. All rights reserved. Throw in a clairvoyant woman, a terrorist plot, and a brilliantly realized set piece about a mass Moonie marriage, and you've got better, sharper, smarter TV than most TV. The Malleus Maleficarum caused the deaths of thousands of forward thinking women. Open Preview See a Problem? This is DeLillo after all. Only the lethal believer, the person who kills and dies for faith You just got lucky. The way they hate many of the things you hate. Print Word PDF. The novel is also about: the indifference of society personified by crowds, the act of writing as a doppelganger for terrorism, and about "messianic returns" to humanity. This offers him a chance to do what he may or may not have been planning all along: disappear completely. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. The limousine from "Cosmopolis" is employed once again in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo. I would actually like to return to this someday, especially in this new millennium featuring the Global War on Terror and that most horrific and course-changing of days: September 11th, Let's say you do want to read a short book for a long time. Nowadays people watch and listen to terror-dominated news and their mindset and life-choices are affected by what has happened. -
Spring 2009 Prof
TENTATIVE syllabus: subject to change – revised 3/26/09 10:52 AM The Muslim Experience in Contemporary European History HIEU 182 (Undergraduate) & HIEU 282 (Graduate) Spring 2009 Prof. Patrick H. Patterson Department of History, UC San Diego Office: Humanities and Social Science Building, Room 4084 Mail Code 0104 Phone: (858) 534-1999 MMW Program: (858) 534-4935 E-mail: [email protected] Course web site: webct.ucsd.edu use your UCSD ID and password to log in Office hours: Wednesdays, 11:00-1:00, in HSS 4084, and by appointment Aims and Scope of the Course: Europe at the beginning of the 21st century finds itself mired in controversies over whether Muslims and the faith they follow can successfully be integrated into a European society that is, to the extent that it is religious at all, predominantly Christian, at least nominally. Questions also arise over the compatibility between the largely secularized European social order and the traditions of Islamic law and politics. But substantial Muslim populations have, in fact, made their home in European countries for many years already: for decades in many parts of Western Europe, and for centuries in other places such as Russia and the Balkan territories of Kosova, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Turkey's desire to gain admission to the EU raises the prospect of a large, predominantly Muslim state -- albeit one with its own distinctive historical relationship to Islam -- becoming a new part of "Europe." And in addition to these more recent concerns, many more Muslims once lived in other parts of Europe before being compelled to leave, as happened notably in Iberia after the Reconquista and in Greece in 1922.