This dissertation wishes to reflect upon the notion of event as an organizing principle in Don DeLillo’s fiction. The assassination of J. F. Kennedy and 9/11 are events that unflinchingly resist the real, or any kind of ontological and phenomenological traceability. They exceed understanding and demand a necessary response from the author and his writing. They represent the intrusion of an excessive reality within “the real” and manifest themselves in the guise of a surplus. But the event is not just a surplus of reality, it is also a surplus of meaning as it posits the inadequacy of the sign and its referent. We will first show how the event shows itself in the very way it shuns its own exposure. This dialectics of veiling and unveiling wi...
International audienceCet article commence par situer l'écriture tardive de Don DeLillo dans le cont...
This paper explores the literary devices and motifs used to portray 9/11 trauma on the page as repre...
Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 ont eu un tel impact et un tel retentissement planétaire qu’ils s...
This dissertation wishes to reflect upon the notion of event as an organizing principle in Don DeLil...
Cette thèse se propose d’interroger la notion d’événement comme motif organisateur de la fiction de ...
The importance and the huge impact of the 9/11 attacks transformed them into the symbol of the entry...
The aim of this study is to critically analyze a corpus of American novels dealing with the Septembe...
The essay focuses on Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise with the aim to understand its author’s reactio...
© 2012 Cassandra J. LovejoyAsking the question, ‘How can we articulate the conditions that make poss...
Cette thèse de doctorat se propose d’étudier les pensées et les poétiques de l’après-coup en littéra...
‘“The Pure Event”—Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo’ examines...
Le propos de cette thèse est centré sur la fictionnalisation des violences terroristes qui ont ébran...
In the wake of the attacks of September 11th, many artists struggled with how to respond to the horr...
In this article I enquire into the conceptualisation and construction of the event, a topic much neg...
National audienceA man on the dole killed himself in front of a Pôle-Emploi agency (French governmen...
International audienceCet article commence par situer l'écriture tardive de Don DeLillo dans le cont...
This paper explores the literary devices and motifs used to portray 9/11 trauma on the page as repre...
Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 ont eu un tel impact et un tel retentissement planétaire qu’ils s...
This dissertation wishes to reflect upon the notion of event as an organizing principle in Don DeLil...
Cette thèse se propose d’interroger la notion d’événement comme motif organisateur de la fiction de ...
The importance and the huge impact of the 9/11 attacks transformed them into the symbol of the entry...
The aim of this study is to critically analyze a corpus of American novels dealing with the Septembe...
The essay focuses on Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise with the aim to understand its author’s reactio...
© 2012 Cassandra J. LovejoyAsking the question, ‘How can we articulate the conditions that make poss...
Cette thèse de doctorat se propose d’étudier les pensées et les poétiques de l’après-coup en littéra...
‘“The Pure Event”—Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo’ examines...
Le propos de cette thèse est centré sur la fictionnalisation des violences terroristes qui ont ébran...
In the wake of the attacks of September 11th, many artists struggled with how to respond to the horr...
In this article I enquire into the conceptualisation and construction of the event, a topic much neg...
National audienceA man on the dole killed himself in front of a Pôle-Emploi agency (French governmen...
International audienceCet article commence par situer l'écriture tardive de Don DeLillo dans le cont...
This paper explores the literary devices and motifs used to portray 9/11 trauma on the page as repre...
Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 ont eu un tel impact et un tel retentissement planétaire qu’ils s...