Don DeLillo : balance at the edge of belief / Jesse Kavadlo. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kavadlo, Jesse, 1971-

Series:

Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 40.

Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.

DeLillo, Don.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Belief and doubt in literature.

Spiritual life in literature.

Subjectivity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 170 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Don DeLillo is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial culture, this book argues that DeLillo's recent novels - White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, and The Body Artist - are more concerned with spiritual crisis. Although DeLillo's worlds are rife with rejection of belief and littered with faithlessness, estrangement, and desperation, his novels provide a balancing moral corrective against the conditions they describe. Speaking the vernacular of contemporary America, DeLillo explores the mysteries of what it means to be human."--Jacket.

Contents:

White noise, mortality, mortality

Injustice for all : balancing Libra with "American Blood"

Beyond novelists and terrorists : Mao II

"The Fall of 1951" : celebration and annihilation in underworld

Recycling authority : Don DeLillo's waste management

The body artist; or, How to re-read Don DeLillo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8204-7806-7