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Format: 1 online resource (232 p.)

ISBN: 9780822381679

Content: If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America’s most important contemporary novelists, turn to Introducing Don DeLillo. Placing the author’s work in a cultural context, this is the first book-length collection on DeLillo, adding considerably to the emerging critical discourse on his work.Diversity is the key to this striking assemblage of cultural criticism edited by Frank Lentricchia. Special features include an expanded version of the Rolling Stone interview with the author (“An Outsider in this Society”) and the extraordinary tenth chapter of DeLillo’s Ratner’s Star. Accessibly written and entertaining, the collection will be of great interest to both students and scholars of contemporary American literature as well as to general readers interested in DeLillo’s work.Contributors. Frank Lentricchia, Anthony Decurtis, Daniel Aaron, Hal Crowther, John A. McClure, Eugene Goodheart, Charles Molesworth, Dennis A. Foster, and John Frow

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , The American Writer as Bad Citizen -- , "Opposites," Chapter 10 of Ratner's Star -- , "An Outsider in This Society": An Interview with Don DeLillo -- , How to Read Don DeLillo -- , Clinging to the Rock: A Novelist's Choices in the New Mediocracy -- , Postmodern Romance: Don DeLillo and the Age of Conspiracy -- , Some Speculations on Don DeLillo and the Cinematic Real -- , The Product: Bucky Wunderlick, Rock 'n Roll, and Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street -- , Don DeLillo's Perfect Starry Night -- , Alphabetic Pleasures: The Names -- , The Last Things Before the Last: NO,tes on White Noise -- , Libra as Postmodern Critique -- , List of Don DeLillo's Novels -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822381679

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381679

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822381679

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Format: 1 online resource (233 p.)

ISBN: 9786612904172 , 0-8223-1149-6 , 1-282-90417-5 , 1-282-90416-7 , 0-8223-8168-0 , 9786612904165 , 0-8223-1131-3 , 0-8223-8167-2

Series Statement: e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Content: If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to Introducing Don DeLillo. Placing the author's work in a cultural context, this is the first book-length collection on DeLillo, adding considerably to the emerging critical discourse on his work.Diversity is the key to this striking assemblage of cultural criticism edited by Frank Lentricchia. Special features include an expanded version of the Rolling Stone interview with the author ("An Outsider in this Society

Note: "Originally published ... as volume 89, number 2 of the South Atlantic quarterly"--Verso t.p. , Includes index. , Breaking the mold -- Statecraft and women's rights, 1902-1918 -- Feminist congresses and organizations -- A prosopography of the feminist leadership -- The feminist journalists -- Women's suffrage and the question of democracy -- Feminism and social motherhood -- Legislating morality -- Fields, factories and feminists -- Blacks, whites, and women: the equal rights law. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-1144-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-1135-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822381686