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The Language of Self - Strategies of Subjectivity in the Novels of Don DeLillo (Paperback, New edition)
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The Language of Self - Strategies of Subjectivity in the Novels of Don DeLillo (Paperback, New edition)
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The Language of Self explores the portrayal of subjectivity in Don
DeLillo's fiction. It proposes that his characters' conception of
self is determined by the tension between a desire for connection
and a longing for isolation. The particular form taken by this
language of self is shown to be both shaped by, and in turn formed
through, an interaction with larger, social constructions of
agency. In order to explore this phenomenon from both an individual
and a social perspective, the author undertakes detailed close
readings of DeLillo's texts, informed by nuanced theoretical
analysis which stresses the symbiotic interaction of social and
individual context. This method informs the structure of the book,
which is divided into three sections. The first, entitled 'Dasein',
conceptualises how DeLillo's characters navigate between isolation
and connection, shaping a particular enunciation of self which
reflects the balance they strike between self and other.
'Phenomenology', the second section, explores how DeLillo's
treatment of language and image alters this balance and examines
the sustainability of each enunciation of self. The final section,
'Das Man', addresses how the language of self shapes, and is shaped
by, a wider social context.
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