The construction of identity in a consumerist society: Delillo’s Jack Gladney
This paper deals with the construction of the postmodern identity of Jack Gladney, the main character in Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985). Employing (post)modern, social psychology, and psychoanalytic theories of Zygmunt Bauman, Erich Fromm, Jean Baudrillard, and Gilles Lipovetsky, it analyzes the c...
Main Author: | Sanja Matković |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | deu |
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University of Osijek
2016-02-01
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Series: | Anafora |
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Online Access: | http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/226914 |
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