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"Killers and diers": white noise, violence, genre.(teaching Don DeLillo's White Noise)(Essay)
Abstract
Towards the end of Don DeLillo's White Noise, Murray lectures Jack Gladney on the theoretical relationship between "killers and diers" (290). His point that "violence is a form of rebirth" for the killer places DeLillo's novel inside a long line of traditionally violent works in American literature. My essay will examine the topic of violence in White Noise by unraveling the various literary genres on which DeLillo relies. Teachers of the novel will find my approach useful, because it allows the general and theoretical subject of violence to be discussed through concrete and specific narrative conventions. My essay will also act as a blueprint for ...
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