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O'Brien, Monica.

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Bombed-out consciousness: The negative teleology of the modern subject in Adorno, Beckett and DeLillo (Germany, Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel Beckett, Ireland, France, Don DeLillo).

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Title/Author:	Bombed-out consciousness: The negative teleology of the modern subject in Adorno, Beckett and DeLillo (Germany, Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel Beckett, Ireland, France, Don DeLillo)./
Author:	O'Brien, Monica.
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0584.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Germanic. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3164708
ISBN:	0496993224

Bombed-out consciousness: The negative teleology of the modern subject in Adorno, Beckett and DeLillo (Germany, Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel Beckett, Ireland, France, Don DeLillo).
O'Brien, Monica.

Bombed-out consciousness: The negative teleology of the modern subject in Adorno, Beckett and DeLillo (Germany, Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel Beckett, Ireland, France, Don DeLillo). - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0584.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005.

This dissertation considers Theodor W. Adorno's assertion that the language of modern fiction inherited from the Western tradition is no longer a sufficient means to express the self and its experiences under late capitalism, and examines how authors Samuel Beckett and Don DeLillo offer alternatives to traditional conceptions of modern narration without falling into the nebulous category of the "postmodern." It argues that the specific subjectivity of the individual can only be expressed dialectically in a complex contemporary landscape that has over-exhausted all existing outlets for expression. Beckett and DeLillo expose fictional narration as both an insufficient means to represent the self and as a vehicle to translate the self's originary trauma of being silenced by the imperfect significations of such discourses into an articulation of suffering. Their negative literary expression is compared to the exhaustion of tonality in modern music, particularly in the twelve-tone works of Schoenberg as well as in Webern and Cage's works of mere silence. Beckett's focus on the demise of the subject through the literary technique of first-person narration is compared to DeLillo's focus on the specifically American phenomenon of individualism, which is also borrowed from certain Enlightenment values of autonomy and self-denial. However, the thesis asks, if a late modernist like Beckett tends to bring about the "death of the novel" or, similarly, if composers like Schoenberg, Webern and Cage begin writing pieces comprised of no music, where is "the subject" to go for artistic expression according to an Adornian logic, in the age of the "postmodern," if all formal possibilities have been exhausted, or, proven to lead to silence, discord, or ugliness, and avant-garde techniques have become commonplace? The thesis ultimately defends against postmodern conceptions of the "death of the subject" in aesthetics, and argues that an Adornian conception of contemporary art must include a utopian impulse towards transcendence and reconciliation for the subject position despite severely limited expressive outlets.

ISBN: 0496993224Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019072
Literature, Germanic.

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