The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo
The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo

Author: John N. Duvall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-05-29

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139828088

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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.

White Noise
White Noise

Author: Don DeLillo

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1999-06-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1440674477

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. “Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.”—The New Republic The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

Author: Inger H. Dalsgaard

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0521769744

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This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

Author: Eva-Marie Kröller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-08

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1107159628

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A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Don DeLillo In Context
Don DeLillo In Context

Author: Jesse Kavadlo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-06-02

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 1009027190

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Don DeLillo is one of the most important novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Yet despite DeLillo's prolific output and scholarly recognition, much of the attention has gone to his works individually, rather than collectively or thematically. This volume provides separate entries into the wide variety and categories of contexts that surround and help illuminate DeLillo's writings. Don DeLillo in Context examines how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding DeLillo's prodigious body of work.

New Essays on White Noise
New Essays on White Noise

Author: Frank Lentricchia

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991-08-30

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780521398930

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White Noise, the story of a professor of Hitler Studies and his family, has received much attention and critical acclaim. This collection of essays provides an overview of the author as well as the controversial novel.

The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists
The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists

Author: Timothy Parrish

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1107013135

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This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.

Conversations with Don DeLillo
Conversations with Don DeLillo

Author: Don DeLillo

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781578067046

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Throughout long profiles and conversations--ranging from 1982 to 2001--the renowned author makes clear his distinctions between historical fact and his own creative leaps