DeLillo’s Libra and the Subjunctive Mood as Fictionalization- Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures

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DeLillo’s Libra and the Subjunctive Mood as Fictionalization

Author：Kaiwei Xia Time：2024-02-01 Click：

DeLillo’sLibraand the Subjunctive Mood as Fictionalization

Kaiwei Xia

Hunan Normal University

Page 117-133

Abstract:Don DeLillo’sLibrais often considered a postmodernist rendition of history, but there exist temporal distortions in his fiction that must be parsed into the subjunctive mood instead of the simple past tense. The fictive transformation from the temporal tense to the mood of potentiality underlies DeLillo’s fictionalization of history that attempts to problematize the ironclad facts. This would to power manifests the point that fiction is a poetic and emotive alternative to actualized reality. What is Real to fiction lies in its virtual reality.

Keywords:fiction, history, subjunctive mood, textual production, immanence

DOI:10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202302009

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