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'White Noise', 2007.
This paper studies five different journals that analyze 'White Noise' by Don DeLillo.
1,038 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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In this article the writer looks at various journals by different authors that examine Don DeLillo's work 'White Noise'. The different writings studied are Thomas Peyser's "Globalization in America: The Case of Don DeLillo's White Noise"; Arthur M. Saltzman's writing in Modern Fiction Studies "The Figure in the Static: White Noise"; Mark Conroy's "From Tombstone to Tabloid: Authority Figured in White Noise"; critic Noel King's writing in Critical Quarterly "Reading White Noise: Floating Remarks" and critic Lou F. Caton's writing in English Language Notes "Romanticism and the Postmodern Novel: Three Scenes from Don DeLillo's White Noise".
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"As hard as it might be to imagine a man who is a professor of "Hitler Studies" at a midwestern college serving as the believable and substantive narrator of a novel, with author Don DeLillo anything seems possible, and there is always a message to his madness for those readers who are truly "listening" as they read. Is DeLillo suggesting that America is on the road to fascism? Is the media leading American down the road to all people seeing and hearing the same repetitive propaganda, like barns that are famous because they are said to be famous? That is clearly one of the author's intents."
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"White Noise" by Don DeLillo and "America" by Jean Baudrillard, 2003.
A discussion of postmodern America in the books "White Noise" by Don DeLillo and "America" by Jean Baudrillard.
1,719 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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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.
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""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."
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"White Noise" and Technology, 2002.
An analysis of the novel "White Noise".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper is in the form of an essay about technology in Don DeLillo's nineteen-eighties novel, "White Noise". The author explains the ups and down about technology in terms of white noise in our life.
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?White Noise?, 2002.
A discussion of the reality of death in Don DeLillo?s novel, "White Noise".
2,612 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper reviews the novel "White Noise" by Don Delillo, the story of Jack Gladney and his family who are located somewhere in middle America and are victims as well as willing participants in American society?s love affair with consumerism. It examines how DeLillo creates exaggerated characters and stereotypes that surround Jack to emphasize his main message with regard to the reality of death and how "White Noise" is laced with the themes of consumerism within the scope of denying death. It shows how DeLillo is extremely clear in his point that consumerism is a huge part of our popular culture and perhaps the main avenue people choose to travel upon as they avoid death and deathly discussion. This point is made to underscore the idea that life is full of moments and situations that are out of your control. The biggest of those moments is death and the final reality of its equalizing affect on society.
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"Jack?s visit from his father in law, Vernon Dickey, is notable for two reasons. One being the gun Vernon gives to Jack that will be discussed later and the other is Vernon?s speech to his daughter and Jack upon his departure. Vernon lists off his ailments, bad habits, and poor judgments and tells the younger couple not to be worried. He doesn?t want them to worry about his failing eyesight, his smoking habit, his limp or his experiences with women. Vernon tells them not to worry about the mind, because the mind goes way before the body."
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Death in 'White Noise', 2007.
This paper discusses the them of desire and fear of death portrayed in 'White Noise' by Don DeLillo.
2,179 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 67.95
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In this article, the writer presents a detailed examination of the book 'White Noise' by Don Dellio. The writer takes the reader on an exploratory journey through the pages of the book with an overview of the theme of desire underscored for the purpose of the paper. The writer points out that in 'White Noise' the themes are timeless, the writing is excellent and the plot focuses on a desire that is common to all of mankind. The writer discusses that the desire to stay alive and not die, crosses all racial, socioeconomic and geographic boundaries. Further, the writer explains that whether one is young or old, just starting out or firmly established, male or female, most people have an innate fighting drive to stay alive. The writer concludes that whether someone will die tomorrow, or someone will live another 80 years, or someone is not yet born, the point of the book is that every person has a desire to live.
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"Before one can fully understand the theme of desire that is laced throughout the book it is important for one to have an overall grasp of the plot. The plot of the book centers on several people and then includes many peripheral characters to strengthen the book's message. The main character in the book is a man named Jack Gladney. Gladney plays a crucial role in the development and theme of desire in the book because he is the only character that does not display an overt and constant fear of dying and death. While the undertone of all characters in this story is a fear of the unknown when it comes to death the character of Gladney does not produce the same constant understanding that death is something to be feared in the same way that the other characters do. The desire to stay alive is a constant theme because of the constant fear of death."
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"White Noise", 2001.
This paper takes a look at the book "White Noise" by Don DeLillo.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 7 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper looks at the main character in the book "White Noise" by Don DeLillo. It raises complex issues such as freedom of speech, exploitation, racial hatred and even compares Marxist theories to contents in the novel.
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"This is the most important question posed by Don DeLillo?s novel White Noise. But the answer that he gives to this question may not please many of us, for he suggests that it is impossible to speak the truth. Not because human beings are inclined to lie ? although this is certainly true of the characters in his books ? but because there are so many possible truths that the idea of any one truth as having sufficient primacy to be considered The Truth and thus worthy of being given special consideration. As such, given his equal privileging of so many different narrative and ?factual? viewpoints and given his tendency to construct a narrative through various patchwork devices, DeLillo?s work must certainly be considered to be postmodern."
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Don DeLillo?s ?White Noise?, 2004.
This paper examines the novel, "White Noise", not only as the creation of DeLillo?s artistic talents, but also as a reflection of his personal values.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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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.
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"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."
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'White Noise' by Don DeLillo, 2006.
An analysis of Don DeLillo's novel 'White Noise'.
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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.
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"'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?'
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?White Noise? and ?American Beauty?, 2004.
A comparison the portrayal of the American Dream in the book, ?White Noise? by Don DeLillo, and the film, ?American Beauty?.
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This paper discusses how "White Noise" by Don DeLillo and "American Beauty" directed by Sam Mendes are excellent examples of why we no longer believe in the American Dream. It examines how they skillfully shatter the myth that surrounds it and prove that it is indeed an elusive entity, which has only left us feeling incomplete, unloved, worthless, and simply, failures, despite our apparent successes. It also looks at how the women in these works are depicted as victims of media-propagated images of beauty, happiness, satisfaction, and American life on the whole. They are victims of what they see on television and in magazines and are, thus, unable to enjoy their present lives and achievements.
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"In the White Noise by DeLillo, readers come across similar unhappy and dissatisfied characters. Babette, wife of Jack Gladney, is suffering from the same problem of dissatisfaction with life and American way of living as her counterparts in American Beauty. But she exhibits this dissatisfaction in a slightly different manner. Apart from Babette, there are several other female characters in the novel. However they are not properly developed or are too insignificant to comment upon. Steffie, the young daughter of Babette appears to be as immensely affected by media as her mother. She lives in constant fear and sympathizes with people on screen. She is also a victim of what comes on television as she ?becomes upset when something shameful or humiliating seems about to happen to someone on the screen'."
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"White Noise", 2002.
An examination of the way that Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise" portrays the typical American family.
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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A book review which explains how the Gladney family, in Don DeLillo's novel "White Noise" is an extreme portrayal of the "typical American family." It discusses how 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.
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"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 all spiritual hope have disappeared for all intents and purposes, replaced by a faith in the products of the consumerist culture."
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"White Noise" and "Self-Help", 2000.
This essay compares two contemporary novels examining how each of the protagonists deal with personal suffering.
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This essay compares the two contemporary novels "White Noise" and "Self Help", and examines specifically how each of the protagonists deals with personal suffering. It also compares the male vs female response to pain and how each gender deals with life?s problems.
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"It is part of human nature to use humor as an escape when confronted with tragic situations. Jack Gladney, Don Delillo?s character in White Noise (1985), is no exception, nor is the quintessential Lorrie Moore character from Self-Help (1985), her collection of short stories. While the deflection of major life issues, however, is common in both works, the authors reflect this tendency of ours in different contexts. Jack?s dialogue, for example, throughout White Noise is consistently sarcastic. On the other hand, Moore?s humor is darker and her characters employ other tactics to shirk the dilemmas they face in life. "
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White Noise, 2001.
A look at this novel by Don DeLillo and the importance of the element of truth.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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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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"White Noise", 2005.
Analyzes a short part of this novel by Don Delillo, in which the characters visit 'The Most Photographed Barn in the World'.
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This paper presents a short, but intensive analysis of a section of Don DeLillo's classic novel, "White Noise". The paper focuses on the motif of simulation overtaking reality as reflected by Murray and Jack's visit to the barn.
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"This idea can be seen throughout the novel. Jack feels that he does not project an important enough image, so he encases himself in academic robes, thick glasses, and makes up another initial for his name. His actual knowledge and abilities are secondary to others perception of his qualifications. When he picks up his daughter Bee at the airport, she says it is a shame that a group of people had a near-death experience "for nothing", since Iron City has no media. The impact the experience might have on those people is unimportant compared to the effect it would have on the people who heard about it on TV."
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The Evils of Consumerism, 2007.
This paper analyzes Don DeLillo's book, "White Noise".
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The paper describes how Don DeLillo uses his novel "White Noise" to highlight the pitfalls of American consumerism. The paper discusses his observation of our desire for immortality and identity through consumerism, which highlights the implicit dangers of living in today's American society. The paper recommends "White Noise" as one of the greatest contemporary social satires ever written.
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"Don DeLillo's book "White Noise" is considered one of the best contemporary fiction novels in American history. It won the National Book Award in 1985 for its inspirational humor and strong satire of American society. The book centers on the narrator Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies at the College-On-The-Hill. His narration of his daily life and his fears of impending death drive the subtle and strongly self-effacing narrative. Delillo's purpose within this book is to satire American culture and portrays individual fears and the irrationality of them."
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The Psychological Effect of Noise, 2006.
A description of a study on the psychological effect of noise in one's home.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper summarizes a study on how noise affects people, how they adapt their activities in reaction to the noise, and whether the noise contributes to anxiety and stress in their daily life. The author interviewes six individuals, two from each of three different types of environments: relatively quiet areas (as perceived by the interviewer), noisy, downtown urban centers, and suburban settings. Based on his results, the author concluded that noise has a great psychological effect on individuals who perceive the noise to be an infringement on their life. He further assessed that their perception of noise is affected by whether they willingly moved into the environment with full knowledge of the noise level, or the noise level recently increased, encroaching on a previously quiet neighborhood.
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"In the various areas where interviews where conducted, all persons identified noise that at times disrupted their daily activities. The response to the noise in their home environment ranged from neutral to extremely negative. Those that lived in a stereotypically noisy environment (downtown, urban area) were the least bothered by noise. These individuals considered the noise as part of the city life and do not feel that traffic noise from the street below, noises within their apartment building, or the occasional outburst of noise, such as from a siren, were distractions that hindered or affected their daily life and well being."
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