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Don DeLillo : balance at the edge of belief

Author: Jesse Kavadlo
Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, ©2004.
Series: Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.), v. 40.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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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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