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From: Romancing Decay: Ideas of Decadence in European Culture[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Zurbrugg shows the influence of literary Decadence on literary Modernism and Postmodernism.] To what extent can one identify parallels between the modernist and postmodern...
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From: Remodelling Communication: From WWII to the WWW[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Genosko synopsizes Baudrillard’s thinking on media and communication, two subjects central to his early work. He contrasts Baudrillard’s ideas with those of other prominent...
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From: Postgraduate English[(essay date 2016) In the following essay, McNamara draws on the thought of Jean Baudrillard to analyze Ballard’s portrayal of “the flawed utopias of the near future” in three short stories. He contends that Ballard’s...
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From: International Journal of Baudrillard Studies[(essay date 2017) In the following essay, Moser offers a Baudrillardian reading of the search for happiness in Les Choses, maintaining that the two main characters have a difficult time projecting meaning onto the...
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From: European Journal of American Culture[(essay date 2014) In the following essay, Allen examines Disneyland attractions in which a future reality is simulated and their relationship to the perception of experiences. He argues that the Baudrillardian...
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From: Culture and Consciousness: Literature Regained[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Haney describes Slaughterhouse-Five as Vonnegut’s attempt to “reinvent the novel as a way of coping with the absurdity of life.” Haney demonstrates that Slaughterhouse-Five, in...
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From: Writing the Nomadic Experience in Contemporary Francophone Literature[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Harrington explains that “while his writing is officially classified as belonging to the French literary canon, if one examines Le Clézio’s oeuvre as a whole, it is nearly...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date fall 1991) In the following essay, Wilcox finds similarities between the main thematic concerns of White Noise and Jean Baudrillard's theories on information and the media, and contends that DeLillo's parody...
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From: Prajñā vihāra[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Pasco examines Baudrillard’s theories about the relationship that individuals have “with a society that has been seemingly dominated by the hyperrealized function of the media.”...
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From: The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer beyond Borders[(essay date 2013) In the following essay, Stephenson examines Banks’s contradictory representation of the Culture as both a pacifist utopia and a militaristic machine. Stephenson emphasizes the gap between self-image...
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From: Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Bolton examines the tension between science and literature in Inter Ice Age 4 and the novel’s impact in a publication year that marked a turning point in popular ideas about the...
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From: JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Samuels uses Baudrillard’s explanation of postmodernity to form a psychoanalytic theory for writing and teaching composition that works in resistance to the facets of...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date spring 1997) In the following essay, Foster references the critical theories of Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, and Judith Butler, among others, to argue that Dorn's Gunslinger serves to illustrate both...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedExamining Paul Auster's The Music of Chance alongside Jean Baudrillard's theory of chance and seduction, this essay suggests that rapid growth of the gaming industry is a symptom of late capitalism. The codependence of...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 63) Peer-ReviewedBy a paradox that is only apparent, the discourse that makes people believe is the one that takes away what it urges them to believe in, or never delivers what it promises. --Michel de Certeau, The Practice of...
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From:The Comparatist (Vol. 43) Peer-Reviewed"The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy." Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus (185; 6.43) The humanities are in peril. Declining numbers of majors, reductions in financial support, and an overall...
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From:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJean Baudrillard begins his Simulacra and Simulations by invoking Borges's fable of the map that was so accurate it had a one to one ratio with the territory it represented. We understand when we look at a referent--a...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6029)The idea for the Chance event arose in August 1995 while Sylvere and I were driving around Nevada in my black Toyota pickup. We used to like to do that. For several years we'd been spending summers in Los Angeles,...
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From:Artforum International (Vol. 51, Issue 1)IT WAS ANOTHER MOMENT, now impossible to reconstruct, a mix of naivete and cynicism, philosophy and excess, that spawned Jean Baudrillard's appearance in these pages during the 1980s. French poststructural theory...
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From:Gothic Studies (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn response to the proliferation of pre-millennial anxieties, Jean Baudrillard offered the assurance that history was not about to come to a climactic close. Rather than ending, history was already moving in reverse,...