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| Named Person: | Don DeLillo; Don DeLillo; Don DeLillo |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jesse Kavadlo |
| ISBN: | 0820463515 9780820463513 |
| OCLC Number: | 51266003 |
| Description: | viii, 170 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | White noise, mortality, mortality -- Injustice for all : balancing Libra with "American Blood" -- Beyond novelists and terrorists : Mao II -- "The Fall of 1951" : celebration and annihilation in underworld -- Recycling authority : Don DeLillo's waste management -- The body artist; or, How to re-read Don DeLillo. |
| Series Title: | Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.), v. 40. |
| Responsibility: | Jesse Kavadlo. |
Abstract:
"Don DeLillo is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial culture, this book argues that DeLillo's recent novels - White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, and The Body Artist - are more concerned with spiritual crisis. Although DeLillo's worlds are rife with rejection of belief and littered with faithlessness, estrangement, and desperation, his novels provide a balancing moral corrective against the conditions they describe. Speaking the vernacular of contemporary America, DeLillo explores the mysteries of what it means to be human."--BOOK JACKET.
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- DeLillo, Don -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
- Belief and doubt in literature.
- Spiritual life in literature.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- DeLillo, Don -- Critique et interprétation.
- Postmodernisme (Littérature) -- États-Unis.
- Croyance et doute dans la littérature.
- Vie spirituelle dans la littérature.
- Subjectivité dans la littérature.
- DeLillo, Don -- Roman.

