Papers by Vukasin R Damjanovic
In this paper we shall make endeavors to scrutinize the fear of death from different angles and t... more In this paper we shall make endeavors to scrutinize the fear of death from different angles and to give as many examples of it from DeLillo’s book White Noise. This book captures so wonderfully the essence of a postmodern America in which people have seemingly learned to live surrounded by modern calamities, and yet they still carry their inborn primitive fears of dying and perishing. While trying to figure out whether the characters have any legitimate reasons to fear death to such extent, we shall take into account technology to which most of them are dependent on, the changed environment they live in; conspiracy theories connected to that very environment, and of course the form of destructive consumerism which can be related to over-excessiveness and ‘waste’ - infallible attributes of a postmodern society, together with the specific language it creates. Besides references to the book, we will also present two movies dealing with this topic and furthermore we shall introduce the notion of singularity, the notion originally belonging to the sphere of physics and mathematics, but used here to explain the postmodern strivings for trans-humanity in which technological intelligence gains supremacy over the human intelligence. Also, having some modernistic qualities to it, the novel has its moments where psychology can step up in attempts to explain the loss of self, the faith and God. Finally we shall speak of some possible solutions to the problems of disintegrated personality, facilitated perhaps by the very process of individuation.
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A short paper giving some examples of folk etymology in both English and Serbian. Along with the ... more A short paper giving some examples of folk etymology in both English and Serbian. Along with the examples, some explanations were given in order to scrutinise the possible ways of creating these newly-formed, imaginative lexemes.
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