To Relive Things: The Thingly Turn in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis
The present essay brings into sharp focus the question of things—both material and immaterial—that exist in their own right in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel, Cosmopolis. Set against the exponential growth of digitalization that enables things to be far more networked than ever beofe, the novel is open to...
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| Materialtyp: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Språk: | Anglais |
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European journal of American studies
2026
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | The present essay brings into sharp focus the question of things—both material and immaterial—that exist in their own right in Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel, Cosmopolis. Set against the exponential growth of digitalization that enables things to be far more networked than ever beofe, the novel is open to theoretical approaches such as actor-network theory and object-oriented ontology which play an influential role in the turn of the century movement of new materialism that challenges the textual bias in humanities studies. An attempt is hence made to re-explore a broad range of things in the novel from the perspective of the so-called “thingly turn.” In so doing, those things reveal themselves as relivable things. Cosmopolis allows rediscovering the thought-provoking nature of things, and this essay concludes that the novel represents his new millennium fiction that creates its own sense of things. |
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