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    The aesthetics of spatiality in postmodern fiction: a comparative study of paul auster's new york trilogy and don delillo's white noise
    (UMT Lahore, 2024) Asrar Hassan
    This research aims to explore the aesthetics of constructing, narrating, and representing postmodern space in fiction by conducting a comparative analysis of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy and Don DeLillo’s White Noise from the theoretical lens of diverse postmodern spatial and aesthetic theories. Distinct spatial-linguistic aspects of interdisciplinary theories, such as Barthes’ ‘Death of the Author, and signifier-signified relationship’, Baudrilard’s ‘Simulation and Simulacra’, Deleuze’s ‘Rhizomatic Metaphor’, Jameson’s ‘Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’, Koolhaas’ ‘Junkspace’ etc., are synthesized to develop an illustrative model for reading and describing aesthetics of postmodern spatiality. By comparing and contrasting Auster’s metafictional space of urban labyrinthine with DeLillo’s hyperreal space of simulation, this research endeavors to demystify and simplify the complexities associated with mapping and interpreting postmodern space.