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Death Drive and Desire in Cronenberg's Adaptation of DeLillo's Cosmopolis
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In this article, the authors discuss the notion of the death drive as related to global capitalism in Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis and David Cronenberg's film adaptation, and discuss a mimetic reading that makes its political message more definite and transforms the sublimation of Eric's death drive.Abstract:
This article discusses the notion of the death drive as related to global capitalism in Don DeLillo's novel Cosmopolis and David Cronenberg's film adaptation. Cronenberg's elimination of the fantastic elements in the novel and the focus on the dialectical relationship between Eric and Benno, his assassin, enforce a mimetic reading that makes its political message more definite and transforms the sublimation of Eric's death drive as represented in DeLillo's text.read more
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