Apocalyptic Nostalgia in the Prologue of Don DeLillo’s Underworld
Characters in Don DeLillo's novels repeatedly grapple with the existential contradiction which Frank Kermode has called the "immanent apocalypse" and which Jean Baudrillard has identified as a nuclear "implosion." DeLillo's fictions commonly depict the post-apocalyptic...
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University of Edinburgh
2007-12-01
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| Series: | Forum |
| Online Access: | http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/587 |