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Baudrillard, DeLillo 's "White Noise," and the End of Heroic Narrative
Author(s): Leonard Wilcox
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Source: Contemporary Literature, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 346-365
Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsBAUDRILLARD, DELILLO 'S WHITE NOISE,
AND THE END OF HEROIC NARRATIVE
Leonard Wilcox
From Americana, through Great Jones Street, White Noise, and Libra,
Don DeLillo 's novels have been concerned with the relationship between American identity and the mediascapes. If the two earlier works were preoccupied with the way in which the American dream is manipulated by the media, the later two chart a world that is mediated by and constituted in the technologico-semiotic regime. In
White Noise DeLillo 's protagonist Jack Gladney confronts a new order in which life is increasingly lived in a world of simulacra, where images and electronic representations replace direct experience.
Baudrillard, DeLillo 's "White Noise," and the End of Heroic Narrative
Author(s): Leonard Wilcox
Reviewed work(s):
Source: Contemporary Literature, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 346-365
Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1208561 .
Accessed: 27/11/2012 18:24
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp .
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University of Wisconsin Press and The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Contemporary Literature. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded by the authorized user from 192.168.52.75 on Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:24:43 PM
All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsBAUDRILLARD, DELILLO 'S WHITE NOISE,
AND THE END OF HEROIC NARRATIVE
Leonard Wilcox
From Americana, through Great Jones Street, White Noise, and Libra,
Don DeLillo 's novels have been concerned with the relationship between American identity and the mediascapes. If the two earlier works were preoccupied with the way in which the American dream is manipulated by the media, the later two chart a world that is mediated by and constituted in the technologico-semiotic regime. In
White Noise DeLillo 's protagonist Jack Gladney confronts a new order in which life is increasingly lived in a world of simulacra, where images and electronic representations replace direct experience.
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