Tag Archives: postmodernism

DeLillo Predicted Ohio’s Toxic Disaster

By Robin Bates | Published: February 22, 2023

DeLillo’s “White Noise” uncannily predicts the East Palestine, Ohio train accident.

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Star Wars & Thousand-Faced Heroes

By Robin Bates | Published: December 16, 2015

A poem by Katy Giebenhain about “Star Wars” shows the flaws of its Joseph Campbell roots. She notes that “the hero doesn’t get/through anything alone.”

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Gaga Feminism & 12th Night

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2015

“Gaga feminism” is a playful challenge to conventional social definitions. Shakespeare can be seen as writing “Twelfth Night” in the spirit of gaga feminism.

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High Art, Low Art, and Murakami

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2012

Murakami’s “1Q84” seamlessly moves between high art and pop culture, complicating the issue of guilty reading pleasures.

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