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9781604975048

Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and the Consumer Conundrum

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    9781604975048

  • ISBN10:

    1604975040

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-03-31
  • Publisher: Cambria Pr

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Marc Schuster teaches writing, Literature and Film, American Literature, and Creative Nonfiction at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Number Justifies Itself: Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and Consumer Culturep. 1
Shopping for Its Own Sake: Don DeLillo's System of Objectsp. 9
Escaping the Third Person Singular: Americana and the Semiotic Challengep. 31
Another Media Event? Players and the Specter of Terrorismp. 53
Calculating Terror: Signification and Symbolic Exchange in The Namesp. 75
Seduction of the Ambivalent: Fatal Strategy in Librap. 93
One Beat Away from Elevator Music: Mao II and the Artist in Oppositionp. 111
To Vandalize Their Eyeballs: Underworld's Graffiti Instinctp. 135
Slow, Spare and Painful: Body Time and Object Time in The Body Artistp. 159
Conclusion: An Element of Doubt: Cosmopolis and the Specter of Ambivalencep. 179
Postscript: Creating a Structure out of Willful Trivia: Falling Man and the Unbearable Ambivalence of Beingp. 191
Works Citedp. 205
Indexp. 211
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