Toon Staes

List of John Benjamins publications for which Toon Staes plays a role.

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Staes, Toon 2011 The enduring stuff of narrative: Late capitalist ideology and the end of history in Don DeLillo’s Underworld and Cosmopolis English Text Construction 4:1, pp. 1–17 | Article
The reevaluation of the past in Don DeLillo’s Underworld and Cosmopolis can be seen as a valuable counterargument to Francis Fukuyama’s triumphalistic claim that contemporary society heralds the end of history. The sublime multiplicity of history in both novels illustrates how time eventually… read more