Don DeLillo's white noise / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Zuba, Jesse.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical interpretations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeLillo, Don. White noise.

DeLillo, Don.

Physical Description:

vii, 246 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2003.

Summary:

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index

Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is a compelling story of life in post-war America.

Contents:

Closing the loop: White noise / Tom Leclair

The last things before the last: notes on White noise / John Frow

"Adolf, we hardly knew you" / Paul A. Cantor

Tales of the electronic tribe / Frank Lentricchia

Baudrillard, DeLillo's White noise, and the end of heroic narrative / Leonard Wilcox

Don DeLillo: rendering the words of the tribe / Arnold Weinstein

From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise / Mark Conroy

The (super)marketplace of images: television as unmediated mediation in DeLillo's White noise / John N. Duvall

The figure in the static: White noise / Arthur M. Salzman

The romantic metaphysics of Don DeLillo / Paul Maltby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0791070441

OCLC:

49923159