Naslov
Bordering on History: Rewinding in Past in Don DeLillo's Underworld

Autori
Brlek, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
South-European Journal for Semiotic Studies / - Graz : University of Graz, with the Austrian Association for Semiotics, 2000, 275-292

Skup
Borders, Signs, Transitions; a colloquium in the series Open Borders

Mjesto i datum
Graz, Austrija, 26.11.1999. - 27.11.1999

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
theory; epistemology; criticism; ethics

Sažetak
Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld presents the reader with a variety of transgressions of the text-context and fact-fiction boundaries, foregrounding the mechanisms of constructing both the past and the present reality and exposing the problem of fictional referentiality. Its two basic moves are the narrative strategy of arranging groups of events in a chronologically reversed order, while simultaneously advancing the plot, and the procedure of invariably selecting the otherwise concealed, obscured, ignored or latent aspects of narrated events, whether fictional or historical. The resulting text – the fundamental aporia of its enterprise being emphasised by the novel’s ruling metaphor and intertextual signal: waste – could be read as taking its clue from Wittgenstein: The poet must always be asking himself: ‘is what I am writing really true then?’ – which does not necessarily mean: ‘is this how it happens in reality?’

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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