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Animating Spirit: Wasted Image and Identity in Don DeLillo’s Underworld

By Tso-wei Hsieh
REAL: Review of English and American Literature [Yingmei wenxue pinglun]

This paper first discusses Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulation and its implication, and examine how “modelized” characters are trapped in the “pixel” world. Then, it shows the process in which the subject tries to transform itself from the simulated “death” to the animated life.

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