White Noise

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In this paper, the storyline of "White Noise" is analyzed and the question is asked - how much of the truth needs to be exposed in certain situations. The story is of a professor of Nazi studies and the way that he twists the truth of his studies to have better dramatic exposure. The moralities of this situation are discussed.

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"We can thus see in this novel a living demonstration both of the stylistic considerations of postmodernism and deconstruction as well as of the deeper, more philosophical definitions of these movements. For Gladney defines for us a postmodern world in which language refers only to itself rather than to an real reality that exists beyond the margins of the text. In Gladney s postmodern world, there can easily exist multiple and even conflicting interpretations of a text. The best interpretation here is never the truest but rather the one that sells the best."

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