American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1736 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Don DeLillo and *White Noise*
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The idea
The witness calls DeLillo one of America's premier postmodernist novelists and records that he rejects the term, placing himself in a line of modernists from Joyce through Faulkner. In White Noise the photographs of the most photographed barn in America are more real than the barn.
In practice
A barn famous for being photographed.
Where people slip
The novelist rejects the label the exam uses.
Your place on the trail
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