White Noise may be said to be an amalgam of a number of recognizable contemporary fictions. It is a satire of academic life as were Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution (1954), Mary McCarthy's The Groves of Academe (1952) and John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy (1966); although the apocalypticism of White Noise is a different kind altogether from Barth's version). The disruptive impact of the arrival of the mysterious cloud — revealing the underlying negative characteristics of the academic pastoral — is reminiscent of any number of "catastrophes," though none of.....
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