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Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and the consumer conundrum

Title
Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and the consumer conundrum / Marc Schuster.
Author
Schuster, Marc, 1973-
Publication
Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008.

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Description
xii, 214 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • DeLillo, Don > Criticism and interpretation
  • Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007
  • Consumption (Economics) in literature
  • Consumption (Economics) > Psychological aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the number justifies itself : Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and consumer culture -- 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 The names -- Seduction of the ambivalent : fatal strategy in Libra -- One 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.
Call Number
JFE 08-3770
ISBN
  • 9781604975048 (alk. paper)
  • 1604975040 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2007050143
OCLC
  • 184924629
  • vendorOCN184924629
Author
Schuster, Marc, 1973-
Title
Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and the consumer conundrum / Marc Schuster.
Imprint
Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 08-3770
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