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• Title:
  Don DeLillo and the Ghost of Language
• Creator:
  Hetman, Jarosław
• Description:
  It is diffcult to provide an insightful overview of Don DeLillo’s fction without commenting upon the signifcance that language plays in his novels—not as a craft, but as an object of an in-depth, ongoing study. To DeLillo, language seems to inhabit a paradoxical, liminal space between material existence and inexistence. On the one hand, the author is famous for his masterful control over his words, on the other, he recognizes a mysterious force with which the words affect literature independently of its creator in a possession-like manner. In my article, I discuss DeLillo’s reflections on language by analyzing The Body Artist, his shortest and arguably most unusual novel, on the surface a strange kind of a ghost story, but beyond that, a profound reflection on language, trauma and contemporary art. I focus on the novel’s semi-aphasic character, Mr. Tuttle, to explore the spectral quality in DeLillo’s language, connecting it to Jacques Derrida’s influential theoretical reflection on the matter.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
• Date:
  2017.12.21
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Vol. 14 (2017): Spectrality and Cognition: Haunted Cultures, Ghostly Communications; 87-97;
  Theoria et Historia Scientiarum; Tom 14 (2017): Spectrality and Cognition: Haunted Cultures, Ghostly Communications; 87-97;
  2392-1196;
  0867-4159
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.2017.006/13728
• Subject:
  Don DeLillo;
  language;
  ghost;
  haunting;
  contemporary art;
  trauma;
  Jacques Derrida
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/THS/article/view/ths.2017.006
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text