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