An analysis of Don DeLillo's powerful imaginings, the atmosphere of the individual implicated in the postmodern condition

grantor: University of TorontoDon DeLillo distills common premises about the postmodern era--about the way public and private experience tend to be "always ready" constituted or framed by language, by the intrusions of mass media, by the subterranean ideologies of a decentered network of apocalypse and a painful awareness of the devastation of the natural world. DeLillo, accepting the self's implication in postmodern "white noise" the residue of a "familiar" human awareness of death. More than merely working out the writer's strategy of self, this thesis, by examining three of his novels, will make judgements about the success or failure of the strategies as convincing constructs in the context of the novels.M.A