Don DeLillo after the millennium : currents and currencies / edited by Jacqueline A. Zubeck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zubeck, Jacqueline A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.

DeLillo, Don.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines all the author's work published in the twenty-first century: The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K; the plays Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short stories in The Angel Esmeralda. What topic doesn't DeLillo tackle? Cyber-capital and currency markets, ontology and intelligence, global warming and cryogenics, Don DeLillo continues to ponder the significance of present cultural currents and to anticipate the waves of the future. Performance art and ethics, drama and euthanasia, space studies and the constrictions of time: DeLillo perspicaciously reads our culture, giving voice to the rhythms of our vernacular and diction. Don DeLillo after the Millennium brings together an international cast of scholars who examine the astonishing output of an author who continues to tell our stories and show us ourselves. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I "Collateral Crisis" 25

1 Collateral Crisis: Don DeLillo's Critique of Cyber-Capital / Matt Kavanagh Kavanagh, Matt 27

2 The Currency of DeLillo's Cosmopolis / Mark Osteen Osteen, Mark 45

Part II "Here and Gone" 65

3 'Here and Gone': Point Omega's Extraordinary Rendition / Jesse Kavadlo Kavadlo, Jesse 67

4 Place as Active Receptacle in Don DeLillo's The Angel Esmeralda; Nine Stories / Elise Martucci Martucci, Elise 83

5 Mourning Becomes Electric: Performance Art in Don DeLillo's The Body Artist and Falling Man / Jacqueline A. Zubeck Zubeck, Jacqueline A. 107

Part III "Ontological Crossings" 135

6 Love-Lies-Bleeding: Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Dying Man / Graley Herren Herren, Graley 137

7 "The Art, the Artist, the Landscape, the Sky": Ontological Crossings in Love-Lies-Bleeding / Randy Laist Laist, Randy 157

Part IV "Time, Time, Time" 169

8 Don DeLillo, the Contemporary Novel, and the End of Secular Time / Scott Dill Dill, Scott 171

9 Cinematic Time, Geologic Time, Narrative Time / Maciej Maslowski Maslowski, Maciej 191

Part V "Poetics of Survival" 209

10 "The Rough Shape of a Cross": Chiastic Events in Don DeLillo's "Baader-Meinhof" / Karim Daanoune Daanoune, Karim 211

11 DeLillo's Poetics of Survival: A Case Study / Jennifer L. Vala Vala, Jennifer L. 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Zubeck, Jacqueline A., author. Don DeLillo after the millennium

ISBN:

9781498548663

1498548660

OCLC:

993672010