Research Catalog

Title

Don DeLillo : contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Katherine Da Cunha Lewin and Kiron Ward.

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lewin, Katherine Da Cunha
• Ward, Kiron

Description

xiii, 198 pages; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Contemporary critical perspectives

Uniform Title

Contemporary critical perspectives series.

Subjects

• DeLillo, Don
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• DeLillo, Don > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-194) and index.

Contents

Introduction: A trick of the light: Don DeLillo in the 21st Century / Katherine Da Cunha Lewin and Kiron Ward -- 'I'm sure you must be somebody': white masculinity in Don DeLillo's Americana and White Noise / Tim Engles -- Apocalyptism, environmentalism and the other in Don DeLillo's End zone, Great Jones Street and Ratner's star / Katherine Da Cunha Lewin -- Libranth: Nicholas Branch's Joycean labyrinth in Don DeLillo's Libra / Graley Herren -- Unstable bodies in Don DeLillo's Mao II and The body artist / Rebecca Harding -- 'We came for the dirt but stayed for the talk': Don DeLillo's theatre / Mark Osteen -- Don DeLillo's Italian American: the early short stories and Underworld / Maria Lauret -- Staging the counter-narrative in Don DeLillo's Falling man / Ronan McKinney -- The art of being out of time in Don DeLillo's Point Omega / Catherine Gander -- Don DeLillo's Zero K and the dream of the cryonic election / David Cowart -- Interview: The edge of the future: a discussion with Don DeLillo / Peter Boxall.

Call Number

JFE 19-1088

ISBN

• 135004086X
• 9781350040861

LCCN

2018012766

OCLC

1029780002

Title

Don DeLillo : contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Katherine Da Cunha Lewin and Kiron Ward.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Contemporary critical perspectives

Contemporary critical perspectives series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-194) and index.

Added Author

Lewin, Katherine Da Cunha, editor.

Ward, Kiron, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Don DeLillo. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781350040885 (DLC) 2018013716

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1088