Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and the consumer conundrum

Shopping for its own sake : Don DeLillo's system of objects -- Escaping the third person singular : Americana and the semiotic challenge -- Another media event? : Players and the specter of terrorism -- Calculating terror : signification and symbolic exchange in Don DeLillo's The names --...

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1. Verfasser: Schuster, Marc (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Youngstown, N.Y Cambria Press 2008
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Zusammenfassung:Shopping for its own sake : Don DeLillo's system of objects -- Escaping the third person singular : Americana and the semiotic challenge -- Another media event? : Players and the specter of terrorism -- Calculating terror : signification and symbolic exchange in Don DeLillo's The names -- Seduction of the ambivalent : fatal strategy in Libra -- Beat away from elevator music : Mao II and the artist in opposition -- To vandalize their eyeballs : Underworld's graffiti instinct -- Slow, spare, and painful : body time and object time in The body artist -- Conclusion : an element of doubt : Cosmopolis and the specter of ambivalence -- Postscript : creating a structure out of willful trivia : Falling man and the unbearable ambivalence of being
Shopping for its own sake : Don DeLillo's system of objects -- Escaping the third person singular : Americana and the semiotic challenge -- Another media event? : Players and the specter of terrorism -- Calculating terror : signification and symbolic exchange in Don DeLillo's The names -- Seduction of the ambivalent : fatal strategy in Libra -- Beat away from elevator music : Mao II and the artist in opposition -- To vandalize their eyeballs : Underworld's graffiti instinct -- Slow, spare, and painful : body time and object time in The body artist -- Conclusion : an element of doubt : Cosmopolis and the specter of ambivalence -- Postscript : creating a structure out of willful trivia : Falling man and the unbearable ambivalence of being
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 214 S.
ISBN:9781604975048
978-1-60497-504-8