The Edinburgh companion to Don DeLillo and the arts / edited by Catherine Gander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gander, Catherine, Author.

Contributor:

Gander, Catherine, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation.

DeLillo, Don.

Art in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 475 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Summary:

<i>The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts</i> is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Don DeLillo's career-long engagements with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts. Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international contributors, including established voices in DeLillo criticism and emerging experts, the volume forges new paths in the study of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.<br><br>Beginning with a section dedicated to experiential and political aesthetics in DeLillo's work, the Companion offers new perspectives on the forms and functions of the arts across DeLillo's entire oeuvre-from his first novel 'Americana', through his plays, essays, short stories, to his latest novel, 'The Silence'. This exciting Companion is a genuine intervention in DeLillo scholarship by offering an interdisciplinary examination of his work across forms, media, method, and theory.

Contents:

Intro

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Ways of Seeing / Don DeLillo and the Arts

Part I: DeLillo and Aesthetics: Art as Experience

1. A Tender Experience: Aesthetics of Death in DeLillo's Fiction

2. The Art of Feeling

3. The Art of War

4. The Art Encounter

Part II: Visual Arts and Cultures

5. Radiance and Repetition: DeLillo's Icons

6. L'objet trouvé and the Pressure of History: DeLillo's Aesthetic of Found Things and the 1970s

7. DeLillo's Photo Opportunity

8. Where Have All the Writers Gone? Art and Vision in DeLillo's Later Works

9. DeLillo's Landscapes

10. DeLillo in Colour

Part III: Literary Arts

11. The Art of Editing

12. Poetry

13. Ekphrasis

14. Staged Events: Don DeLillo, the Short Story, Intellectuals and the Arts

15. Joycean DeLillo

16. DeLilloesque: DeLillo's Cultural Impact

Part IV: Film, Screens and Technology

17. DeLillo and the Cinematic Long Take

18. Thematic Equivalence and Ontological Ambivalence: Film Adaptations of the Works of Don DeLillo

19. Video Art and the Elasticity of Duration

20. Screen, Image and the Technological Sublime

21. Screening Fundamentalism, Fanaticism and Terrorism in DeLillo's Post-9/11 Fiction

22. The Digital Physics of Reading DeLillo

Part V: Embodied Arts: Performance and Spectacle

23. Phones, Words and Silences: On Performance and Performativity in DeLillo's Narrators

24 DeLillo Across Page and Stage

25. Transforming the Spectacle in DeLillo's Late Novels

26. DeLillo's Performances of Abjection

Part VI: Place, Site, Space

27. DeLillo and Land Art

28. DeLillo and the Gallery

29. Time and Loss: DeLillo and the Imagination of Archaeology

30. Going Up in the World: Architecture in the Works of Don DeLillo

31. 'Bird Lives': The High Art of Graffiti in Don DeLillo.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Feb 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-9992-9

1-4744-9991-0

OCLC:

1403373469