Time

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Chapter 28 - Time

Still Life

from Part VI - Social and Cultural Constructions

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022

Catherine Gander

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Jesse Kavadlo

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Jesse Kavadlo: Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri

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Summary

While DeLillo’s entire oeuvre has been concerned with the exigencies and mysteries of time as it is shaped by human hands into history, time seems to saturate the pages of his more recent works in a new, immersive way, prompting us to consider more carefully art’s capacity to reflect, influence, and challenge not only what we choose to do with the time we have, but our methods of measuring it.

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Don DeLillo Body Artist time technology culture

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Information: Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 270 - 280

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025676.035 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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