Transcendence in an Age of Tabloids and Terror: Don DeLillo's Apophatic Approach.
This essay examines how Don DeLillo employs the apophatic tradition as a means of approaching the transcendent while resisting media absorption and extremist cooptation. Apophatic discourse—discourse that points toward that which is beyond language—honors the dynamic nature of truth, making it well...
| Publicado en: | Religion & the Arts Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 50 - 76 |
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2019
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