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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The financial imaginary Dreiser, DeLillo, and abstract capitalism in American literature.

Shonkwiler, Alison R. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2007. / "Graduate Program in Literatures in English." Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215).
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Bombed-out consciousness the negative teleology of the modern subject in Adorno, Beckett and DeLillo /

O'Brien, Monica. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Comparative Literature Department, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.
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Interrogating history or making history? : Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the shaping of collective memory /

Mills, Mark Spencer. January 2006 (has links) (PDF)
Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of English, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-89).
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The role of popular mythology and popular culture in post-war America, as represented by four novels The floating opera and The end of the road by John Barth ; White noise by Don DeLillo; and Vineland by Thomas Pynchon /

Reed, Mark Dobson. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (M. A.)--University of Syndey. / Title taken from title screen (viewed October 5, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.
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The great american navel : le grand roman américain et le langage approprié

Grenier, Daniel January 2009 (has links) (PDF)
Ce mémoire a pour objectif d'analyser le phénomène du Grand Roman Américain comme représentation de l'imaginaire national, en en faisant l'archéologie. Je propose, à partir de ce postulat initial, de procéder à un balayage sociologique des éléments qui entrent en ligne de compte dans la composition formelle et symbolique de certaines oeuvres marquantes ayant eu droit au titre de Grand Roman Américain. Il s'agit d'une sorte d'histoire chronologique de l'expression et de ses représentations littéraires. Opération qui mènera à une analyse approfondie de la prise en charge du langage, de l'espace et du temps comme discours dans Underworld de Don Delillo, parangon de ce qu'est le Grand Roman Américain dans son acception moderne. Underworld jouera le rôle d'un prisme, apte à rendre compte du roman contemporain (pour des notions telles que l'obsession de la mémoire collective et individuelle, l'absorption des mythes fondateurs, la contamination entre culture d'élite et culture de masse) et de ses prédécesseurs (on peut penser à la réactualisation des archétypes, aux intertextes, aux réécritures). Entre une sociologie qui prendrait comme point d'appui une littérature américaine analyste de son environnement, et une sociocritique d'un roman emblématique comme Underworld, ce mémoire cherche aussi à créer un pont entre différentes oeuvres qui pensent et ont pensé l'Amérique à la fois comme un tout préhensible et un concept fuyant, équivoque. Dans un premier temps, il s'agira de proposer une analyse sociologique et historique de l'expression Grand Roman Américain et d'en examiner les corrélats à l'intérieur de l'imaginaire social de l'Amérique. Dans un aller-retour entre la société et le livre qui s'en veut le reflet, je tenterai de dégager les lignes de tensions et les chevauchements, autrement dit les instants d'imprécisions entre la réalité et le mythe, entre le vrai social et le faux livresque. En quoi les oeuvres littéraires qui se réclament du Grand Roman Américain sont-elles révélatrices des ambiguïtés propres à leur milieu? Se consacrer ensuite à l'étude d'Underworld, c'est chercher à investir le coeur de la problématique. Le roman sera abordé sous les deux angles suivants: premièrement, son rapport au langage et au discours (la parole, la voix, l'énonciation). Qu'est-ce que l'Amérique, comment être Américain? Deuxièmement, et par extension, son appartenance au corpus Grand Roman Américain, dans une perspective d'intertextualité qui permettra de bien saisir les enjeux majeurs qui regroupent et recoupent les différentes époques littéraires et les différentes écritures. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Littérature américaine, Imaginaire social, Oralité, Mythes, Idéologies.
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Child's play, toys and pure games : revising the romantic child in Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Don DeLillo

Kruger, Katherine January 2018 (has links)
No description available.
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Acts of justice : risk and representation in contemporary American fiction

Polley, Jason S. January 2006 (has links)
Spectacles of justice preoccupy contemporary American culture. Legal culture---including the Watergate trials, the Lewinsky scandal, and OJ Simpson's trial for alleged murder---assumes a central place in the American imaginary. Configurations of the law are not limited to media reportage and televised docudramas. Nor are arbitrations confined to law faculties and the spaces of formal courts. Working through depictions of due process in different ways and in different zones, contemporary American writers point up the prevalence of legality in everyday life. Whether on college campuses, in TV studios and suburban homes, or at theatres and racetracks, justice mediates interpersonal relations. Personal narratives proliferate as modes of self-justification. Everyone has a right to represent her side of a story. As interpretations of reality, however, none of these stories can claim absolute justness. No one has a monopoly on the law or victimhood. / This dissertation inspects how Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo, and Jane Smiley present the inconsistencies of the law. These American novelists emplot global escapes into their work as a means to inform notions of liberty and jurisprudence. For these writers, freedom requires the recognition of contradictory---and unanticipated---narratives. "Justice Theory" emerges where media, gambling, performance, and suburban studies intersect with ethics, globalism, and narratology. In Franzen's novel The Corrections and essay collection How to Be Alone, self-validation requires the appreciation of the stories of others. In DeLillo's later works, particularly the plays The Day Room and Valparaiso, justice materializes in terms of isolation and the will to alter personal stories. For Smiley, as construed in her long novels The Greenlanders and Horse Heaven, dynamic responsive actions attend risky, unpredictable encounters in competitive milieus like the racetrack. These authors reveal that executions of justice and the perpetration of injustice involve varied consequences. The law is not only about punishment and recompense. Rather, legality directs the consequences of its applications toward the ideal of justice, which evolves alongside the subjects that it serves and the stories that they relate.
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The corporeal word : an examination of the body and textuality in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children and Don DeLillo's The body artist

Caddell, Heather E. January 2005 (has links)
This study examines the complex interplay between textuality and bodily performance by tracing their development within these two novels. Both texts are fundamentally concerned with the body and its interaction with a dominant culture. Often, the corporeal frame is posited as a physical text in which the social mores, cultural ideologies, and historical framework of a character's society are expressed through the bodies of its citizenry. However, both protagonists struggle to achieve an autonomous subject position outside the realm of the dominant culture, with varying degrees of success. At the end of Midnight's Children, Rushdie subverts the body's position as authoritative text by aligning the voice of record with textual production. Conversely, DeLillo's protagonist refutes the ability of linguistic representation to adequately convey her pathos, and instead utilizes her body art as the most effective means of communicating the atmosphere of alienation and fear which characterizes the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. / Department of English
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"I shop, therefore I am : consumerism and the mass media in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland" /

Ni ́Éigeartaigh, Aoileann. Unknown Date (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2001.
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Ghost novels haunting as form in the works of Toni Morrision, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and J.M. Coetzee /

Yoo, JaeEun, January 2009 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Literatures in English." Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-181).

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