My "Work-in-Progress": Making Sense of Murray Jay Siskind Through a Gnostic Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Amazons

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dc.contributor.authorBaldwin, Renata
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-18T17:47:33Z
dc.date.available2023-03-18T17:47:33Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-03-18
dc.description.abstractSpirituality is a key focal point in American novelist Don DeLillo’s ongoing exploration of misinformation and uncertainty in postmodern America. This research focuses on Murray Jay Siskind, who appears as a prominent character in DeLillo’s Amazons and White Noise. Reading these works in tandem with The Nag Hammadi Scriptures and scholarly interpretations of Gnosticism illuminates Murray as a character who embodies the Gnostic values of intuition, enlightenment, and truth. Murray’s awareness of his own fictionality is the root of this gnosis and what identifies him as a source of spiritual authority for protagonists and readers in both texts.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14886
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectJaponismeen_US
dc.subjecttatooingen_US
dc.subjectdiasporaen_US
dc.subjectBritainen_US
dc.subjectVictorianen_US
dc.subjectEdoen_US
dc.titleMy "Work-in-Progress": Making Sense of Murray Jay Siskind Through a Gnostic Reading of Don DeLillo's White Noise and Amazonsen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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