Fetishism and Form: Advertising and Ironic Distance in Don DeLillo’s White Noise

This essay uses the historical framework of late twentieth-century advertising to understand issues of characterization in Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise. Given DeLillo’s prior career as a copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather, as well as a large body of scholarship that analyzes his novels in rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adam Szetela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2018-06-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12950