ENGL204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Don Delillo, White Noise, Sensationalism
29 Nov 2018
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Family runs from cloud - evacuation center (old gym) Dialogue/speech - how it"s presented to us (abrupt? filtered?) Postmodern moment - using the familiar and keeping it familiar (but different voices of wife reading throws us off) Denise - looking at medical realm of this. Taking charge and having authority (even though he"s young) Observer/witness (circulating eye witness form group to group) Compared to facts/information, it treats rumors as equal. Want any information that they can get - listening equally - to rumor or. Acts as though it is a living thing - lifespan, separate from him, not a part of him. Heinrich explains it in scientific way and story way. Single speaker with crowd of people watching and listening & looking for answers; passive position of being the audience and nothing more. Death - desensitized people - used to the bad so they aren"t going crazy about being in their own disaster.
