| Don DeLillo is an eminent postmodernist novelist of contemporary America, who has been awarded the National Book Award, the Faulkner Award and the Jerusalem Prize, as well as other prizes for literature. He displays the world through a picture of postmodern society with acute insight and sober consciousness, expressing his concern with the crisis in postmodern society.DeLillo’s masterpiece Cosmopolis is considered as one of the outstanding works created by American novelists. It depicts the self-destruction and sublimation of the multi-billionaire Eric Packer, the protagonist in Cosmopolis, within one day. The novel reveals multiple themes through the alienation and paranoia, reality and fancy, globalization and terrorism, of postmodern society, etc, therefore it has research value and practical significance.This thesis mainly analyzes and discusses DeLillo’s postmodern narrative techniques of indeterminacy, fragment and different types of narrative points of view in Cosmopolis the text employed in this thesis with the method of exemplification, based on the postmodern literary theory and narratology, hoping to interpret Don DeLillo and his postmodern works more profoundly and study the artistic value of postmodern literature better. |
