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dc.contributor.authorPirnajmuddin, Hossein
dc.contributor.authorSamani, Bahareh Bagherzadeh
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-22T13:52:18Z
dc.date.available2019-11-22T13:52:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn2084-574X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/30848
dc.description.abstractDon DeLillo’s White Noise depicts a world of rapid techno-scientific and economical changes. Paul Virilio’s concepts of dromology and speed, as well as his notions of accident and technology, seem to be the most relevant in order to examine a novel centrally concerned with change, speed and technology. This article first offers an analysis of White Noise in the light of Virilio’s concept of integral accident in relation to the negative consequences brought about by industrial and technological progress. This is followed by a discussion of the relevance to the novel of Virilio’s theories about architecture and space. Finally, Virilio’s theories about the replacement of conventional war with pure and info wars are discussed in the context of the central event of the novel. Reading the American writer through the lens of the French theorist can shed light on the enduring relevance of both.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegoen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesText Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture; 9
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dc.subjectDon DeLillo’s „White Noise”en_GB
dc.subjectPaul Virilioen_GB
dc.subjectaccidenten_GB
dc.subjectinfo waren_GB
dc.subjectvirtualizationen_GB
dc.subjectarchitectureen_GB
dc.titleDon DeLillo’s "White Noise": A Virilian Perspectiveen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.page.number356-373
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Isfahan
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationQeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University
dc.identifier.eissn2083-2931
dc.contributor.authorBiographicalnoteHossein Pirnajmuddin is Associate Professor of English literature at English Department, University of Isfahan, Iran. His research interests include Renaissance literature, contemporary English fiction, literary theory, and translation studies.en_GB
dc.contributor.authorBiographicalnoteBahareh Bagherzadeh Samani is Assistant Professor at English Department, Azad University, Qeshm Branch. Her research focuses on the intersection of theorization of technology and contemporary American fiction.en_GB
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dc.contributor.authorEmailpirnajmuddin@fgn.ui.ac.ir
dc.contributor.authorEmailbahar_samani@iauqeshm.ac.ir
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/2083-2931.09.22


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