In the following essay, Salyer explicates the religious dimension of American cultural phenomenon represented in White Noise, contrasting the novel's mythical and mystical elements with those o...
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In the following essay, Caton posits that DeLillo's characterization of Jack Gladney in White Noise epitomizes Romantic sensibilities despite the postmodern tenor of the novel’s themes.
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In the following essay, Phillips characterizes White Noise as a “postmodern pastoral,” studying the novel's representation of the natural world in general and the rural American l...
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In the following essay, Shapiro discusses the textual framework provided in Don DeLillo's White Noise for experiencing fears that are typically obscured in modern life by a complex of social co...
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"The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence" (DeLillo 98). White Noise by Don DeLillo is a contemporary adult novel and a winner of the National Book A...
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Life is a whole journey to death. We spend our entire life wondering about death. Death; what does it mean? It is the common question in our heart that everyone has. We all fear death, the force that...
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Teaching White Noise
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White Noise Lesson Plans contain 126 pages of teaching material, including:
The old year hasn't really ended. The new year is still making up its mind. It's a time for the crumbs-the morsels left over from the banquet that fall on the floor for the dogs.The movies are off ...
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Over the years, independent filmmaker Alan Berliner has tried just about every remedy in the world to fall asleep, including chamomile tea, hypnosis, warm milk, white noise, alcohol, aromatherapy, ...
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The Cult of the Amateur (Doubleday/Currency, $22.95) is a jeremiad about the baleful effects of the Internet on our culture. Andrew Keen insists that the wiki-wonders of that radically democratized...
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Peter the Great probably never had a Prufrock moment. He traveled incognito to Amsterdam and worked as a ship’s carpenter to learn the trade. Then he went home and built a navy. He learned to...
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's claims that he was responsible for dozens of successful, foiled and imagined attacks in the past 15 years relies on a loose definition of the word "responsible." Officials ...
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I'm having an affair with my husband. Ever since we became parents, the operative word for our sex life is "furtive." We're sneaking around, exchanging coded phone calls and hush-hush quickies. I h...
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My students tell me the painter Julie Mehretu is hot stuff. Given the heft of her press packet, she must be: You can flip through its pages at the front desk of Projectile, a West 57th Street galle...
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The sun lay warm on our faces as writer and photographer sat in a hillside meadow with a hawk’s view of Italy’s Apennine peaks where a glorious spring afternoon was nestling in with the...
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A few nights ago, my sister called from her cell phone to make dinner plans in Manhattan. Two minutes into the conversation, I said, “I don’t know—what about that place with the c...
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