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The environmental unconscious in the fiction of Don DeLillo / Elise A. Martucci.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.E4425 Z755 2007
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LIBRA PS3554.E4425 Z755 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martucci, Elise A.
- Series:
- Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
- Studies in major literary authors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.
- DeLillo, Don.
- Human ecology in literature.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2007]
- Summary:
- This book offers a socio-historic and ecocritical reading of Don DeLillos novels, arguing that the emphasis on place in DeLillos work distinguishes him from other postmodern writers and demonstrates the environmental significance of his fiction.
- Contents:
- DeLillo, postmodernism, and the nature of nature
- "How real the landscape truly was" : reading Americana as a pastoral critique
- The names : discovering the deeper textures
- White noise : a level of experience to which we will gradually adjust
- Taking meaning out into the streets : the significance of place in Underworld.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415981026
- 9780415981026
- OCLC:
- 86172841
- Online:
- Publisher description
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