Considering the recent critical perspectives on the fictions of the late 1990s, the paper interpr... more Considering the recent critical perspectives on the fictions of the late 1990s, the paper interprets the narrative structure and the construction of the networks of time in the novel Underworld by Don DeLillo. Reviewing the dominant theoretical frames for the interpretation of history and narrative, historiographic metafiction proposed by Linda Hutcheon and the postmodern understanding of history as a collage of elements by Frederic Jameson, the paper examines the ideas of structuring the time in narrative from the perspective of now. Timeframe is thus interpreted as a sequence of present moments designed, recorded and repurposed as “future past moments” defined by the process of archive fever and the accelerated recontextualization of the ‘snapshots’, characters and historical figures. We propose that the idea of this structure is to bring light to seeing history as a series of contingencies rather than a teleological sequence with a predesigned outcome, and to emphasize the view o...
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 2011
The proposal that the world is made of sequences of zeros and ones, overtly expressed in DeLillo’... more The proposal that the world is made of sequences of zeros and ones, overtly expressed in DeLillo’s early novel Ratner’s Star (1976), marks the first time in DeLillo’s fiction that he introduces the idea that the (creation of) reality is of mathematical nature. The “zero-oneness” of the world thirty odd years later, although it still may be an uncommon thought in literature, is ubiquitous in the visual arts, in film and in architecture, and binary code has become the basis of our digitally enhanced reality. Looking at DeLillo’s Millennial novels, this paper seeks to explore models of the space-time continuum of the fictional reality that DeLillo constructs; focusing on Ratner’s Star as a literary exploration of a three-dimensional space and on the novel Body Artist as an investigation of the fourth dimension, pondering time, we hope to register the “sum total of one’s data” (WN) as the only palpable texture of DeLillo’s reality.
In his Millennial novels (those published after 2000), DeLillo explores different aspects of the ... more In his Millennial novels (those published after 2000), DeLillo explores different aspects of the human perception of identity and the world we live in. His latest novel, Silence, challenges the conventions which are understood to represent the basis of our understanding of reality – the data, its collection and recording and how it is used to configure the dimension of time. The novel opens as a routine mix of chatter, or noise, and silence as its negative counterpart representing the time passing. However, as the novel unfolds, this seemingly objective view from the outside, delves into personal experiences of the protagonists creating certain soundscapes alternating between the noise and silence, depending more and more on sensory perception rather than on rational processing. With its skeletal structure and utmost reduction of narrative elements, the novel Silence approaches the idea of silence in a similar manner to composer John Cage in his work 4.33 (1952), who researched the ...
… in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the …, 2006
Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastiv... more Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Santiago de Compostela, septiembre 2005/coord. por Cristina Mourón Figueroa, Teresa Moralejo Gárate, 2006, ISBN 84-9750-648-0, pags. 863 ...
... Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. vi + 386 pp. $143.00 hardcov... more ... Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. vi + 386 pp. $143.00 hardcover/e-book. ISBN 978-90-272-3190-1 (hardcover)/978-90-272 8902-5 (e-book). Buy now. DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2012.651046 Mirna Radin-Sabadoš a pages 131-132. ...
… in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the …, 2006
Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastiv... more Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Santiago de Compostela, septiembre 2005/coord. por Cristina Mourón Figueroa, Teresa Moralejo Gárate, 2006, ISBN 84-9750-648-0, pags. 863 ...
The Postmodern City: a Mythical Labyrinth of Mediated Space in Don De Lillo’s Novels Underworld a... more The Postmodern City: a Mythical Labyrinth of Mediated Space in Don De Lillo’s Novels Underworld and Cosmopolis
Considering the recent critical perspectives on the fictions of the late 1990s, the paper interpr... more Considering the recent critical perspectives on the fictions of the late 1990s, the paper interprets the narrative structure and the construction of the networks of time in the novel Underworld by Don DeLillo. Reviewing the dominant theoretical frames for the interpretation of history and narrative, historiographic metafiction proposed by Linda Hutcheon and the postmodern understanding of history as a collage of elements by Frederic Jameson, the paper examines the ideas of structuring the time in narrative from the perspective of now. Timeframe is thus interpreted as a sequence of present moments designed, recorded and repurposed as “future past moments” defined by the process of archive fever and the accelerated recontextualization of the ‘snapshots’, characters and historical figures. We propose that the idea of this structure is to bring light to seeing history as a series of contingencies rather than a teleological sequence with a predesigned outcome, and to emphasize the view o...
ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 2011
The proposal that the world is made of sequences of zeros and ones, overtly expressed in DeLillo’... more The proposal that the world is made of sequences of zeros and ones, overtly expressed in DeLillo’s early novel Ratner’s Star (1976), marks the first time in DeLillo’s fiction that he introduces the idea that the (creation of) reality is of mathematical nature. The “zero-oneness” of the world thirty odd years later, although it still may be an uncommon thought in literature, is ubiquitous in the visual arts, in film and in architecture, and binary code has become the basis of our digitally enhanced reality. Looking at DeLillo’s Millennial novels, this paper seeks to explore models of the space-time continuum of the fictional reality that DeLillo constructs; focusing on Ratner’s Star as a literary exploration of a three-dimensional space and on the novel Body Artist as an investigation of the fourth dimension, pondering time, we hope to register the “sum total of one’s data” (WN) as the only palpable texture of DeLillo’s reality.
In his Millennial novels (those published after 2000), DeLillo explores different aspects of the ... more In his Millennial novels (those published after 2000), DeLillo explores different aspects of the human perception of identity and the world we live in. His latest novel, Silence, challenges the conventions which are understood to represent the basis of our understanding of reality – the data, its collection and recording and how it is used to configure the dimension of time. The novel opens as a routine mix of chatter, or noise, and silence as its negative counterpart representing the time passing. However, as the novel unfolds, this seemingly objective view from the outside, delves into personal experiences of the protagonists creating certain soundscapes alternating between the noise and silence, depending more and more on sensory perception rather than on rational processing. With its skeletal structure and utmost reduction of narrative elements, the novel Silence approaches the idea of silence in a similar manner to composer John Cage in his work 4.33 (1952), who researched the ...
… in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the …, 2006
Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastiv... more Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Santiago de Compostela, septiembre 2005/coord. por Cristina Mourón Figueroa, Teresa Moralejo Gárate, 2006, ISBN 84-9750-648-0, pags. 863 ...
... Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. vi + 386 pp. $143.00 hardcov... more ... Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. vi + 386 pp. $143.00 hardcover/e-book. ISBN 978-90-272-3190-1 (hardcover)/978-90-272 8902-5 (e-book). Buy now. DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2012.651046 Mirna Radin-Sabadoš a pages 131-132. ...
… in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the …, 2006
Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastiv... more Localización: Studies in contrastive linguistics: Proceedings of the 4th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Santiago de Compostela, septiembre 2005/coord. por Cristina Mourón Figueroa, Teresa Moralejo Gárate, 2006, ISBN 84-9750-648-0, pags. 863 ...
The Postmodern City: a Mythical Labyrinth of Mediated Space in Don De Lillo’s Novels Underworld a... more The Postmodern City: a Mythical Labyrinth of Mediated Space in Don De Lillo’s Novels Underworld and Cosmopolis
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