The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo

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Cambridge University Press, 29 thg 5, 2008
With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired and studied for their narrative technique, political themes, and their prophetic commentary on the cultural crises affecting contemporary America. In an age dominated by the image, DeLillo's fiction encourages the reader to think historically about such matters as the Cold War, the assassination of President Kennedy, threats to the environment, and terrorism. This Companion charts the shape of DeLillo's career, his relation to twentieth-century aesthetics, and his major themes. It also provides in-depth assessments of his best-known novels, White Noise, Libra, and Underworld, which have become required reading not only for students of American literature, but for all interested in the history and the future of American culture.
 

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The power of history and the persistence of mystery
1
Aesthetic and cultural influences
11
DeLillo and modernism
13
DeLillo postmodernism postmodernity
27
Early fiction
41
DeLillo and media culture
43
DeLillos apocalyptic satires
53
DeLillo and the political thriller
66
Underworld
108
Themes and issues
123
DeLillo and masculinity
125
DeLillos Dedalian artists
137
DeLillo and the power of language
151
DeLillo and mystery
166
Writing amid the ruins911 and Cosmopolis
179
Select bibliography
193

Major novels
77
White Noise
79
Libra
94
Guide to further reading
195
Index
199
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John Duvall is Professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University, Indiana.

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