Thesis (doctoral)--Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität zu Münster, 1981. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-244).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 180-203).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-267). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in Spanish)--Vanderbilt University, Dec. 2007. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Queensland, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

This study discusses works by Martin Amis and Don DeLillo in the context of several key scientific and technological transformations that occur in the aftermath of the Second World War. I begin by revisiting one of the most-discussed aspects of DeLillo's work: the currents conspiracy and paranoia that recur in his novels and, he claims, pervade the wider culture. By demonstrating how paranoid narratives strive to accommodate contemporary technologies, I create a context in which the paranoia addressed in works such as Libra and Underworld becomes intelligible as a response to the specific technological character of surveilance and control in the post-War period. The sciences of information and cybernetics also cohere in the years folowing the War, and the second chapter explores the creative tension between metaphors of entropy and information in Amis's fiction as wel as DeLillo's. The third chapter focuses on television as a constitutive element of postmodernity, and traces how DeLillo and Amis adopt narrative strategies that enable them to represent subjects who have grown accustomed to living within an environment mediated, to an unprecedented degree, by visual imagery supplied by or formatted for television. Another product of postmodern technology, commercial air travel reconfigures relationships to place and to time for inhabitants of industrialized countries. Both the liberating and limiting consequences of living in the latter half of the century of flight are addressed in the fourth chapter. The final chapter offers an assessment of the role contemporary media and technology play in establishing the characteristics associated with postmodernity, and concludes with a brief discussion of the role the internet might play within the context of the specific technologies discussed in the body of the thesis.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of English, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61).

Orientador: Maria Stella Martins Bresciani / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T11:12:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TorraoFilho_Amilcar_D.pdf: 1225925 bytes, checksum: 4497f24406b1bf2a43f2c05b3664ac7b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo rever algumas imagens da cidade luso-brasileira nas narrativas de viagem de autores franceses e britânicos, que foram muitas vezes incorporadas pela historiografia. Procuro em algumas definições do gênero literatura de viagem, maneiras de compreender como se formam as imagens conceituais sobre a cidade brasileira e como o espaço urbano serve, neste período, como um espelho da alteridade entre a Europa ¿civilizada¿ e ¿polida¿ e os territórios de administração ou origem portuguesa, considerados decadentes e ¿bárbaros¿, no período de superação dos vínculos coloniais e de criação do Estado Nacional brasileiro. Meu objetivo não é reconstituir uma suposta ¿realidade¿ das cidades, como elas eram quando visitadas por estes viajantes, mas verificar como questões retóricas, de estilo e teorias prévias, trazidas em suas bagagens, condicionam a descrição das experiências do mundo tangível / Abstract: The goal of my work is to provide a review of images of the Luso-Brazilian cities that were often incorporated by historiography in the narratives of French and British authors. From the travel literature genre, I investigate ways to understand how conceptual images about the Brazilian cities and the urban space for the period of 1783 through 1844 serve as a mirror of the differences between the ¿civilized¿ and ¿refined¿ Europe and the territories of Portuguese administration or origin, which were considered as decadents and ¿barbarians¿ during the period of surpass of colonial ties and the creation of the Brazilian National State. Rather than to reconstruct a supposed ¿reality¿ of the cities or how they were when visited by the travelers of the period, my objective is to verify how rhetorical questions of style and previous theories as represented by the contents brought within the traveler¿s luggage affect the description of the experiences of the tangible world / Doutorado / Historia Cultural / Doutor em História

This study discusses works by Martin Amis and Don DeLillo in the context of several key scientific and technological transformations that occur in the aftermath of the Second World War. I begin by revisiting one of the most-discussed aspects of DeLillo's work: the currents conspiracy and paranoia that recur in his novels and, he claims, pervade the wider culture. By demonstrating how paranoid narratives strive to accommodate contemporary technologies, I create a context in which the paranoia addressed in works such as Libra and Underworld becomes intelligible as a response to the specific technological character of surveilance and control in the post-War period. The sciences of information and cybernetics also cohere in the years folowing the War, and the second chapter explores the creative tension between metaphors of entropy and information in Amis's fiction as wel as DeLillo's. The third chapter focuses on television as a constitutive element of postmodernity, and traces how DeLillo and Amis adopt narrative strategies that enable them to represent subjects who have grown accustomed to living within an environment mediated, to an unprecedented degree, by visual imagery supplied by or formatted for television. Another product of postmodern technology, commercial air travel reconfigures relationships to place and to time for inhabitants of industrialized countries. Both the liberating and limiting consequences of living in the latter half of the century of flight are addressed in the fourth chapter. The final chapter offers an assessment of the role contemporary media and technology play in establishing the characteristics associated with postmodernity, and concludes with a brief discussion of the role the internet might play within the context of the specific technologies discussed in the body of the thesis. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate