Don DeLillo : the physics of language / David Cowart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowart, David, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.

DeLillo, Don.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Don DeLillo, author of twelve novels and winner of the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize, has begun to rival Thomas Pynchon as the definitive postmodern novelist. Always thought-provoking and occasionally controversial, DeLillo has become the voice of the bimillennial moment. Charting DeLillo's emergence as a contemporary novelist of major stature, David Cowart discusses each of DeLillo's twelve novels, including his most recent work, The Body Artist (2001). Rejecting the idea that DeLillo lacks affinities across the cultural spectrum, Cowart argues that DeLillo's work invites comparison with that of wide range of antecedents, including Dunbar, Whitman, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Hemingway, Joyce, Rilke, and Eliot. At the same time, Cowart explores the ways in which DeLillo's art anticipates, parallels, and contests ideas that have become the common currency of poststructuralist theory. The major site of DeLillo's engagement with postmodernism, Cowart argues, is language, which DeLillo represents as more mysterious-numinous even-than current theory allows. For DeLillo, language remains what Cowart calls "the ground of all making." Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language is a provocative investigation of the most compelling issues of contemporary fiction.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Port One: "For me the crux of the whole matter is language

1. Football and Unsäglichkeit: End Zone

2. Pharmaceutical Philomela: Great Jones Street

3. Mortal Stakes: Players

4. The Naive and Sentimental Reader: Running Dog

Part Two: "Before everything, there's language

5. Timor Mortis Conturbat Me: White Noise

6. Convergence of the Twain: Libra

7. "Our Only Language Is Beirut": Mao II

Part Three: "The word beyond speech

8. For Whom Bell Tolls: Americana

9. "More Advanced the Deeper We Dig": Ratner's Star

10. "The Deepest Being": Language in The Names

11. "The Physics of Language": Underworld

12. DeLillolalia: From Underworld to The Body Artist

13. DeLillo after 9/11: Cosmopolis

Notes

Works by Don DeLillo

Bibliography

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index.

ISBN:

9786613925299

9781283612845

1283612844

9780820342269

0820342262

OCLC:

815471343