DeLillo's White Noise examines

Theatre of the absurd

Ionesco's The Bald Soprano shows everyday speech as meaningless automated noise

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Werther inspired a wave of suicides across Europe

Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' asks

Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' questions if marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse

Celan's 'Death Fugue' does

Celan's 'Death Fugue' poetically captures the Holocaust's horrors through the oppressors' linguistic framework

French New Wave

French New Wave rejected Hollywood's polished studio system

Rembrandt's late self-portraits achieve

Rembrandt's late self-portraits achieve unflinching honesty about aging, failure, and mortality