Don DeLillo / edited by Katherine Da Cunha Lewin and Kiron Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewin, Katherine Da Cunha, editor.

Ward, Kiron, editor.

Series:

Contemporary critical perspectives series.

Contemporary critical perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.

DeLillo, Don.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"Don DeLillo is widely regarded as one of the most significant, and prescient, writers of our time. Since the 1960s, DeLillo's fiction has been at the cutting edge of thought on American identity, globalization, technology, environmental destruction, and terrorism, always with a distinctively macabre and humorous eye. Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of the contemporary American novel to guide readers through DeLillo's oeuvre, from his early short stories through to 2016's Zero K, including his theatrical work. As well as critically exploring DeLillo's engagement with key contemporary themes, the book also includes a new interview with the author, annotated guides to further reading, and a chronology of his life and work."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Series Editors' Preface

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Chronology of Don DeLillo's Life

Introduction: A Trick of the Light: Don DeLillo in the 21st Century / Katherine Da Cunha Lewin (University of Sussex, UK) & Kiron Ward (University of East Anglia, UK)

1. 'I'm sure you must be somebody': White Masculinity in Don DeLillo's Americana and / White Noise Tim Engles (Eastern Illinois University, USA)

2. Apocalyptism, Environmentalism and the Other in Don DeLillo's End Zone, Great Jones Street and Ratner's Star Katherine Da Cunha Lewin (University of Sussex, UK)

3. Libranth: Nicholas Branch's Joycean Labyrinth in Don DeLillo's Libra / Graley Herren (Xavier University, USA)

4. Unstable Bodies in Don DeLillo's Mao II and The Body Artist / Rebecca Harding (University of Sussex, UK)

5. 'We came for the dirt but stayed for the talk': Don DeLillo's Theatre / Mark Osteen (Loyola University Maryland, USA)

6. Don DeLillo's Italian American: The Early Short Stories and Underworld / Maria Lauret (University of Sussex, UK)

7. Staging the Counter-Narrative in Don DeLillo's Falling Man / Ronan McKinney (University of Sussex, UK)

8. The Art of Being Out of Time in Don DeLillo's Point Omega / Catherine Gander (Maynooth University, Ireland)

9. Don DeLillo's Zero K and the Dream of the Cryonic Election / David Cowart (University of South Carolina, USA)

Interview: The Edge of the Future: A Discussion with Don DeLillo / Peter Boxall (University of Sussex, UK)

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781350040892

1350040894

9781350040885

1350040886

9781350040878

1350040878

OCLC:

1057792894