Abstract
This paper explains that while not itself a pornographic novel, "Running Dog" objectifies women, thereby exemplifying the essence of pornography-- escape into fantasy through the subjugation of women. The author describes how DeLillo both masterfully juxtaposes and intermingles Nazi propaganda with the lures of pornography by subtly exposing the propagandic aspects of woman as object in pornography.
The author believes that, ultimately, DeLillo reduces pornography and its connoisseurs to the comic.

From the Paper
"From Moll Robbins and Grace Delaney to Tran Le Mudger and Nadine Rademacher, female characters lack power against the men with whom they come into contact. Simply, they are objects, not people. Grace presents the relationship between men and women best: "I was married to the same man for eleven years. I did his bidding. Not fully realizing. His silent bidding. Somehow, mysteriously, unspokenly. It's built into the air between us. It's carried on radio waves from galaxy to galaxy". Sadly, hers is not a speech of liberation empowering her coworkers, as Moll fails to comprehend the depth of Grace's words, and the secretary Bess Harris only drinks in silence."

Tags:naza, hitler, escape, fantasy, juxtaposion

Abstract
This paper discusses that Don DeLillo, in his novel "White Noise", makes the most of post-modern suggestions that is it the children who may speak and that their lack of experience in the complexities of the world tends to work to their benefit. The author explains that this complex novel is the story of its narrator, Jack Gladney, who has become a Hitler expert because it gives him the opportunity to provide just the right sound bite to get his own name known in an era in which celebrity is based more on glibness than on anything else. The paper concludes that, even when DeLillo intends for us to see in the children a sophistication about the world that should be beyond their years, we cannot quite help hearing the irony in these scenes because his characters are, to some extent, not characters at all, but simply vehicles for his beliefs.

From the Paper
"Gladney has become a Hitler expert because it gives him the opportunity to provide just the right sound bite to get his own name known in an era in which celebrity is based more on glibness than on anything else, and indeed the similarity of his name to the words "glib" as well as "glad-handing" might well be intentional. Gladney has essentially created a product out of a mass murderer in the same way that a new car or odor-suppressing body product would be created and then marketed. He will do anything to make himself famous, and of course the first step in this process is to rid himself of any possible remnants of authenticity. He is who he thinks other people want him to be. Which is not to say that he is in some essential way false to himself, for he is not? He has so thoroughly disconnected himself from whatever it means to be a moral actor that there is no there to be false to. He is his image. He has gone beyond the possibility of being authentic. He is the antithesis of the person who is guided by a deep sense of spirituality."

Tags:post-modern, glibness, children, irony, opportunist

Abstract
This paper explains that the SIMUVAC (Simulated Evacuation) episode in Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise" serves as a pivotal turning point in the narrative. The writer then points out that much of the rest of the narrative is haunted by the main protagonist's (Jack) obsession with his own impending mortality. The paper also investigates the concepts of reality and simulation in real life and concludes that the ultimate significance of the SIMUVAC episode in "White Noise" is that it effects the transformation of death from an abstract sphere to something that is very real in Jack's perceptive field.

From the Paper
"This episode confirms Baudrillard's characterization of the mass media's deceptive role. While the media generates a strong desire in the masses for knowing the absolute truth, of attaining total objectivity in relation to information, it is actually the "truer than true which counts or, in other words, the fact of being there without being there. Or, to put it yet another way, the fantasy." The tabloid media can be thought of as an extreme representation of this desire for a truth that goes beyond truth, until it ultimately satisfies our hidden desire for escape from reality - i.e. fantasy."

Tags:emergency banality, consumer society, disentanglement mortality

Abstract
This paper explores the various meanings of both postmodernism and postmodernity, specifically in reference to Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise", which is in many ways emblematic of both phenomena. Thus, while the paper begins with a delineation between postmodernism and postmodernity, it also shows how the two concepts unite within the course of "White Noise", a postmodernist novel encompassing the postmodern condition.

From the Paper
"What is more, postmodernism also seeks to erase the boundaries that have traditionally separated high culture from popular culture. This came to the forefront most notably in the Pop Art of Andy Warhol. Many other writers and artists incorporate elements of popular culture into their work, whereas Modernists would have merely quoted elements of popular culture. By integrating these seemingly antagonistic qualities into their art work, the postmodern artists and writers effectively make it difficult to tell which "category" their work is meant to fit into."

Tags:pastiche, popular culture, nietzschean, mysterious toxic cloud, hitler

Abstract
This paper examines postmodernism in the novel "White Noise" by Don DeLillo and the non-fiction book "America" by Jean Baudrillard. It explains that even though "White Noise" and "America" deal with reality and the undercurrents of postmodern life, both books are essentially different in their ultimate outlooks. The writer discusses Baudrillard's caustic view of American society and life in his book "America" and contrasts this with the perspective in "White Noise", which is more hopeful for America and its future, despite the dehumanization of postmodern living and the "white noise" it brings with it.

Outlook:
Introduction
White Noise & America
Conclusion

From the Paper
""White Noise" by Don DeLillo and Jean Baudrillard's "America" are, by technical definition, two very different books, the former being a novel and the second a non-fiction musing of a man's travels across the United States. However, both are very similar in that they offer an intense look into postmodern America, with its social relations being affected by society's preferred mediums - television, advertising, radio, and the process of simulacra - that is, the simulacrum that is vanity, a society which places value of false realities over real ones, where a hypperreality has replaced a real existence for human beings. Though both books tackle a reality which may not seem to exist, DeLillo's book at least has some hope for human beings and laughs at life's little hypocrisies, whereas Baudrillard offers little in the way of humor or hope."

Tags:postmodernism, American, society, hypperreality

Abstract
Analysis of Don DeLillo's novel as an extreme portrayal of a typical American family. Theme of corruption of the American family and the American Dream. Disappearance of spiritual hope & and pre-eminence of the material things of modern consumerism. How the Gladney family depicted in the novel differs from sitcom families.

From the Paper
"The Gladney family, in Don DeLillo's novel White Noise is an extreme portrayal of the "typical American family." DeLillo's portrait takes typical features of the American family--such as their lack of communication and their obsession with materialism--and then, through hyperbole and irony, distorts them to sometimes barely recognizable extremes. DeLillo is not after a straightforward picture of the American family, but the radical portrait he offers rather wants to draw attention not only to the degree the purity of the family has been corrupted but also to the extent of the general corruption of the American Dream.


The bewildered and lost American family the author depicts is a part of a bewildered society which has lost its way. It is a family lost in a world of confusion and "white noise," and, especially, in the material things of modern consumerism. God and..."

Abstract
This paper reviews the novel 'White Noise' by don DeLillo. The paper discusses death as a theme prevalent in the book and in the life of the main character, Jack. The main question the paper is asks is whether Jack himself is a "killer" or not when it comes to the subject of death.

From the Paper
"'White Noise' by Don DeLillo is a masterful, somewhat satirical work of literature that illustrates the dysfunctional lives of Jack Gladney a professor of Hitler Studies, his wife Babette, and their many children, living in a small college town in rural New York. Over the course of the book, Jack endures a "toxic event", Babette's drug problems and lies, an overwhelming fear of death, and a horde of kids that, at some points, seem smarter than their parents. The book reads not so much as a suspense thriller, but more of a chronology of bizarre events, and the effect that they have on the life of Jack. The most climactic of these events being the aptly named "airborne toxic event" which is the obvious turning point in the book. The event not only severely alters the life of Jack, but also nearly drives him to the point of murder. The book has several themes worth explicating, but the most obvious and most important to the landscape of the novel is death. Jack has an unhealthy fear of death that is channeled through his obsession with Hitler. This fear forces himself and the reader to ask the question: is Jack a killer or dier?'

Tags:hitler, drugs, babette, death

Abstract
According to the writer, the characters in "End Zone" no longer use words to symbolize their physical surroundings. The paper show that the novel is a modern representation of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. However, the writer uses examples from the book to illustrate the deviation from the allegory. Within the paper we see how the novel works in creating a cycle, from the beginning and returning to the beginning.

From the Paper
"Despite Gary's lackluster attitude, Myna goes on to relate Nemkhu's novel to him. Nemkhu' s work appears to be set in a primordial world. An atmosphere of "thick hard foam" surrounds the planet. The only existing land is a perfectly triangular mountain, which has yet to erode. The only life forms are the nautiloids, who live in a giant ocean under conditions similar to the prisoners' condition in Plato's cave allegory. The prisoners are chained facing the back wall of a dark cave; thus, their position is several times removed from the sunlight's presence, or Plato's idea of "true" knowledge. On the nautiloids' planet, the hard, thick atmosphere blocks any potential light from reaching the sea creatures. Even if light could penetrate through the atmosphere, the nautiloids, in their oceanic existence, would lack an absolute perception of it. The water would dim and alter the light before it could reach them. The nautiloids' communication system also alludes to their distanced perception. Although they have the power of ESP, they do not use it to convey direct thoughts from one to the other. Instead, they have constructed an elaborate numerical system to symbolize their thought patterns."

Tags:cycle, Plato, thought, symbol, language

From the Paper
"Don DeLillo s massive novel Underworld is a stunning, at times overwhelming, document that limns the details and consequences of the Cold War and American popular culture especially of the middle decades of this century. DeLillo writes in an attempt to compel that swerve from evenness in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. With that combination of what in other quarters is called the switch from the sublime to the ridiculous, Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls super-omniscience the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunk..."

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From the Paper
"In his comic novel White Noise, Don DeLillo critiques the superficial, materialistic, and bewildering culture of the United States in the late twentieth century. Although in some moments the author seems to be suggesting an element of humanity worth respect and/or salvation, in general DeLillo presents a human race utterly lost in a world full of madness, rage, confusion, and, especially, the things of modern consumerism. Prevailing over and under all of this is the "white noise" of the title, what amounts to a stew of sensory input which leaves the individual hypnotized and utterly discontent. American consumerism in the novel has become a religion of sorts, but a religion which gives no consolation or salvation. The American Dream, in theory, may consist of living in a paradise of consumer options, but DeLillo pictures it as a nightmare akin to a low-key.."