Literary Criticism of Don DeLillo

literary Criticism of break DeLilloIts my nature to keep quiet about approximately things. Even the ideas in my browse. When you try to unravel something youve written, you downplay it in a way. It was created as a enigma, in helping. adopt DeLillo, from the 1979 interview with Tom LeClairT here(predicate)(predicate) are a number of volumes and essays which are devoted to analysis of fall apart Delillos writing. This page concentrates on the hold buttockss provided (for the about part), with most recent on top.Terrorism, Media, and the ethical motive of fable Transatlantic Perspectives on forefather DeLillo (2010) big to see the publication of this set aside of essays from the DeLillo Conference held in Osnabrck, Germany in 2008 (see my page on the Conference). Edited by conference organizers son of a bitch Schneck and Philipp Schweighauser.Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of prevarication is create by Continuum, ISBN-13 9781441139931, 2010 (hardcover, 264 pages).C ontents include Introduction Philipp Schweighauser and Peter Schneck Memory Work after 9/11The Wake of Terror begetter DeLillos In the Ruins of the Future, Baader-Meinhof, and Falling Man Linda S. Kauffman Grieving and Memory in Don DeLillos Falling Man Silvia Caporale Bizzini Collapsing Identities The Representation and Imagination of the Terrorist in Falling Man Sascha Phlmann Writers, Terrorists, and the Masses6,500 Weddings and 2,750 Funerals monoamine oxidase II, Falling Man, and the Mass Effect Mikko Keskinen Influence and Self-Representation Don DeLillos maneuverists and Terrorists in postmodern Mass Society Leif Grssinger The Art of Terrorthe Terror of Art DeLillos Still Life of 9/11, Giorgio Morandi, Gerhard Richter, and Performance Art Julia Apitzsch Don DeLillo and Johan GrimonprezGrimonprezs Remix Eben WoodDial T for Terror Don DeLillos monoamine oxidase II and Johan Grimonprez Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Martyn Colebrook Deathward and Other PlotsTerror, Asceticism, and Epigrammatic Writing in Don DeLillos Fiction capital of Minnesotaa Martn Salvn The End of Resolution? Reflections on the Ethics of Closure in Don DeLillos Detective Plots Philipp Schweighauser and Adrian S. Wisnicki The Ethics of FictionSlow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man Don DeLillo and the Ethics of Fiction Peter Boxall Falling Man Performing Fiction Marie-Christine LepsMysterium tremendum et fascinans Don DeLillo, Rudolf Otto, and the S atrial auriclech for Numinous Experience Peter Schneck CodaThe DeLillo sequence Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period David Cowart (Sept. 6, 2010)The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo (2008)Above is a shot of the platter on location in Cambridge, with St tushs College in the background I found the book at the Cambridge Book Shop, and the clerk told me that the book had just come in that day (whitethorn 13, 2008)The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo is a new book edit by John Duvall, and it features articles covering ofttim es of DeLillos work by many familiar names of DeLillo criticism. promulgated by Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13 9780521690898, 2008 (paperback, 203 pages). Theres a hardback aswell.Contents include Introduction The power of history and the persistence of mystery John N. Duvall Part I. Aesthetic and Cultural Influences DeLillo and modernism Philip Nel DeLillo, postmodernism, postmodernity Peter Knight Part II. Early Fiction DeLillo and media culture Peter Boxall DeLillos apocalyptic satire Joseph Dewey DeLillo and the political thriller Tim Engles Part III. Major Novels sporty Noise Stacey Olster equilibrium Jeremy Green sin Patrick ODonnell Part IV. Themes and Issues DeLillo and masculinity Ruth Helyer DeLillos Dedealian artists Mark Osteen DeLillo and the power of language David Cowart DeLillo and mystery John McClure Conclusion Writing amid the ruins 9/11 and Cosmopolis Joseph Conte Its unclear how much of this material is truly new much may be adapted from previously make work.Beyond Grief and Nothing A Reading of Don DeLillo (2006)Beyond Grief and Nothing is a new book by Joseph Dewey from the University of South Carolina Press. The book traces a thematic trajectory in DeLillo from his first short story to Love-Lies-Bleeding. The book examines DeLillo as a profoundly uncanny source, a writer who has wrestled with his Catholic upbringing (the title comes from the famous line from Faulkners Wild Palms that forms a report in Godards Breathless) and who has emerged over the digest decade as perhaps the most important religious writer in the Statesn literature since Flannery OConnor.Dewey finds DeLillos concerns to be organized around three rubrics that mark the writers own productive evolution the love of the street, the embrace of the word, and the celebration of the soul.Joseph Dewey is an Associate professor, American literature at University of Pittsburgh, and heco-edited Underwords (see below). 184 pages, hardcover, $34.95.Don DeLillo The Po ssibility of Fiction (2006)Don DeLilloThe Possibility of Fiction by Peter Boxall (Routledge). I dont know much about this book, except for the particular that its expensive Dr. Peter Boxall is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex, and has previously published on Beckett (among others).Approaches to Teaching DeLillos discolour Noise (2006)Approaches to Teaching DeLillos White Noise is a new book edited by Tim Engles and John N. Duvall. From the MLA websiteThis volume, like others in the MLAs Approaches to Teaching World Literature series, is divided into two parts. The first part, Materials, suggests readings and resources for two instructor and students of White Noise. The second part, Approaches, contains eighteen essays that establish cultural, technological, and theoretical con textual matters (e.g., whiteness studies) pop the novel in different survey courses (e.g., unrivaled that explores the theme of American materialism) compare it with other no vels by DeLillo (e.g., monoamine oxidase II) and give examples of classroom techniques and strategies in teaching it (e.g., the use of disaster films).The book is aimed at folk music who include White Noise in their syllabus, and it includes pieces from Mark Osteen, Phil Nel, John Duvall, Tim Engles and many to a greater extent.Benjamin Kunkel on Novelists and Terrorists (2005)In the New York time Book Review of September 11, 2005, Benjamin Kunkel widens Dangerous Characters, an essay on the terrorist novel of the pre 9/11 era. DeLillo unsurprisingly features in the essay. Its worth reading in its entirety, but I pull out a couple quotes here that were of particular interest to meTerrorists might be a novelists rivals, as Don DeLillos novelist character maintains in monoamine oxidase II (1991), but they were excessively his proxies. No matter how realistic, the terrorist novel was similarly a smorgasbord of metafiction, or fiction about fiction.DeLillo saw that novelists, like terrorists, were solitary and obscure agents, men in small rooms, preparing symbolical provocations to be unleashed on the public with a bang. Of course this could refer only to a certain kind of novelist, starting perhaps with Flaubert and ending, DeLillo suggested, with Beckett, whose work could be taken as an indictment of an entire elaboration, and whose authority when it came to that civilization was paradoxically derived from his appearing to stand completely outside it.Don DeLillo oddment at the Edge of Belief (2004)Don DeLillo Balance at the Edge of Belief by Jesse Kavadlo, published in 2004 by Peter Lang Publishing (ISBN 0-8204-6351-5). Heres how the back cover puts itDon DeLillo winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize 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, thi s book argues that DeLillos recent novels White Noise, residuum, Mao II, snake pit, and The Body Artist are more concerned with spiritual crisis. Although DeLillos 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. speak the vernacular of contemporary America, DeLillo explores the mysteries of what it means to be human.Don DeLillo Blooms Modern Critical Views (2003)Don DeLillo was published by Chelsea House in 2003, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.The book consists of previously published critical essays on DeLilloIntroduction by Harold Bloom Don DeLillos Search for Walden Pond by Michael Oriard Preface and Don DeLillo by Robert Nadeau Don DeLillos America by Bruce Bawer White Magic Don DeLillos Intelligence Networks by Greg Tate Myth, Magic and dread Reading kitchen-gardening Religiously by Gregory Salyer The Romantic Met aphysics of Don DeLillo by Paul Maltby For Whom the Bell Tolls Don DeLillos Americana by David Cowart overwhelming Narratives Don DeLillo and the Lethal Reading by Christian Mararu Romanticism and the Postmodern Novel Three Scenes from Don DeLillos White Noise by Lou F. Caton Don DeLillos Postmodern Pastoral by Dana PhillipsAfterthoughts on Don DeLillos Underworld by Tony Tanner What About a Problem That Doesnt Have a Solution? S bankers bills A Flag for Sunrise, DeLillos Mao II, and the Politics of Political Fiction by Jeoffrey S. Bull White Noise A Readers Guide (2003)Don DeLillos White Noise A Readers Guide by Leonard Orr was published in 2003. The book is published as part of the Continuum Contemporaries series, sells for $9.95 and is 96 pages.Underwords Perspectives on Don DeLillos Underworld (2002)Underwords Perspectives on Don DeLillos Underworld is edited by Joseph Dewey, Steven G. Kellman, and Irving Malin, and published by University ofDelaware Press in Sept. 2002 (ISBN 0- 87413-785-3 $39.50). Here is a picture & the blurbDon DeLillos 1997 masterwork Underworld, one of the most acclaimed and long-awaited novels of the last twenty years, was immediately recognized as a landmark novel, not only in the long career of one of Americas most distinguished novelists but also in the current evolution of the postmodern novel. Vast in scope, intricately organized, and densely allusive, the text provided an immediate and engaging gainsay to readers of contemporary fiction.This collection of thirteen essays brings to bulge outher new and established voices in American studies and contemporary American literature to assess the focalise of this remarkable novel not only within the postmodern usage but within the larger patterns of American literature and culture as well. By seeking to place the novel within much(prenominal) a context, this lively collection of provocative readings offers a valuable manoeuvre for both students and scholars of the American liter ary imagination.The book containsA Gathering Under Words An Introduction by Joseph Dewey What Beauty, What ply Speculations on the Third Edgar by Irving Malin and Joseph Dewey Subjectifying the Objective Underworld as Mutable Narrative by David Yetter Underworld Sin and Atonement by Robert McMinnShall These Bones Live by David Cowart Don DeLillos Logogenetic Underworld by Steven G. Kellman Pynchon and DeLillo by timothy L. Parrish Conspiratorial Jesuits in the Postmodern Novel Mason & Dixon and Underworld by Carl Ostrowski Don DeLillo, John Updike, and the Sustaining Power of Myth by Donald J. Greiner In the Nick of Time DeLillos Nick Shay, Fitzgeralds Nick Carraway, and the Myth of the American go game by Joanne Gass Don DeLillo, T.S. Eliot, and the Redemption of Americas Atomic Waste Land by Paul Gleason The Unmaking of History Baseball, moth-eaten War, and Underworld by Kathleen Fitzpatrick Underworld or How I Learned to Keep Worrying and Live the barrage by Thomas Myers The Baltimore Catechism or Comedy in Underworld by Ira Nadel The book also includes a bibliography of Underworld reviews and notices by Marc Singer and Jackson R. Bryer.Don DeLillo The Physics of Language (2002)Don DeLillo The Physics of Language by David Cowart was published in Feb. 2002 by the University of Georgia Press. Here is a link to more info http//www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/don_delillo/Cowart examines the work of DeLillo with an emphasis on language DeLillos use of it in the novels, and the way in which characters in the books are characterized by different types of language. He divides the novels into three groups the tentative early novels (End Zone, Great Jones Street, Players and Running Dog), the popular fictions (White Noise, Libra and Mao II) and the works of great achievement (Americana, Ratners jumper lead, The name calling, Underworld and The Body Artist).Throughout his twelve novels, DeLillo foregrounds language and the problems of language. He has an uncann y ear for the mannered, elliptical, non sequitur-ridden rhythms of vernacular conversation (the common response to thank you has somehow become no problem). His is an wizard parodist of the specialized discourses that proliferate in contemporary society in sport, business, politics, academe, medicine, entertainment, and journalism. The jargons of science, technology, and military deterrence offer abundant targets, too. But the authors interest in these discourses goes beyond simple parody, and it is the task of criticism to gauge the unembellished dimensions of DeLillos thinking about language.Underworld A Readers Guide (2002)Don DeLillos Underworld A Readers Guide by John Duvall was published in early 2002. The book is published as part of the Continuum Contemporaries series, sells for $9.95 and is 96 pages.The book has fiver chapters The Novelist, giving background on DeLillo TheNovel, the main section of the book with an analysis of the main themes The Novels Reception, on th e sign reviews of Underworld The Novels Performance, on the subsequent academic treatment and Further Reading and Discussion.Critical Essays on Don DeLillo (2000)Critical Essays on Don DeLillo, edited by Hugh Ruppersburg, and Tim Engles, published by G.K. Hall, appeared in 2000. Contains a section of book reviews and a section of essays, covering each novel through Underworld.The essays areFor Whom the Bell Tolls Don DeLillos Americana by David Cowart Deconstructing the word of honor Don DeLillos End Zone by Thomas LeClair The End of Pynchons Rainbow Postmodern Terror and Paranoia in DeLillos Ratners Star by Glen Scott Allen Marketing Obsession The Fascinations of Running Dog by Mark Osteen Discussing the Untellable Don DeLillos The Names by Paula Bryant Who are you, literally? Fantasies of the White Self in Don DeLillos White Noise by Tim Engles Baudrillard, DeLillos White Noise, and the End of Heroic Narrative by Leonard Wilcox The Fable of the Ants Myopic Interactions in DeLill os Libra by Bill Millard Libra and the Subject of History by Christopher M. MottCan the Intellectual Still Speak? The event of Don DeLillos Mao II by Silvia Caporale Bizzini Excavating the Underworld of Race and Waste in ratty War History Baseball, Aesthetics and Ideology by John N. Duvall Everything is Connected Underworlds Secret History of Paranoia by Peter Knight Awful Symmetries in Don DeLillos Underworld by Arthur Saltzman American Magic and Dread (2000)Mark Osteens book on DeLillo, American Magic and Dread Don DeLillos Dialogue with Culture, was published by the University of protactinium Press in June, 2000. The book examines DeLillos work from some of the early stories thru Underworld.Modern Fiction Studies (1999)Modern Fiction Studies special abbreviate on DeLillo (Vol 45, No. 3, Fall 1999), includes 10 essays, including work from such friends of the site as Phil Nel, Mark Osteen and Jeremy Green.Undercurrent (1999)In May 1999 an all-DeLillo issue of Erick Herouxs onli ne journal Undercurrent appeared (Number 7). It contains the following essaysCelebration & Annihilation The Balance of Underworld by Jesse Kavadlo DeLillos Underworld Everything that Descends Must Converge by Robert Castle The Inner Workings Techno-science & Self in Underworld by Jennifer Pincott American Simulacra DeLillo in Light of Postmodernism by Scott Rettberg Baudrillards Primitivism & White Noise The only avant-garde weve got by Bradley Butterfield Beyond Baudrillards Simulacral Postmodern WorldWhite Noise by Haidar Eid Postmodern Culture (1994)The January, 1994 issue of Postmodern Culture featured the DeLillo Cluster, four essays all dealing with DeLillo edited by Glen Scott Allen and Stephen Bernstein.Glen Scott Allen, Raids on the Conscious Pynchons legacy of Paranoia and the Terrorism of Uncertainty in Don DeLillos Ratners Star Peter Baker, The Terrorist as Interpreter Mao II in Postmodern Context Stephen Bernstein, Libra and the Historical SublimeBill Millard, The Fabl e of the Ants Myopic Interactions in DeLillos LibraDon DeLillo (1993)Don DeLillo is a book by Douglas Keesey, a part of the Twaynes U.S. AuthorsSeries, published by Macmillan, 1993, 228 pages. This book has a chapter on each novel, as well as brief summaries of the stories and plays.Keeseys reading of DeLillos work is that his novels restrain in the intensive study of media representations of reality that threaten to distance us from nature and from ourselves. Thus he links Americana to film, End Zone to language, etc.I found the chapter on Americana quite elicit, as Keesey rebuts those critics who categorized this book as a typical first novel, poorly constructed and lacking charcter development. He argues that on closer examination DeLillo is distinctly in control of the books structure and characters, having made fully conscious aesthetic choices.I tried to get this book through a store, but they couldnt get it, so I ended up get direct call 1 800 323 7445 to order.Theres an article by Keesey in Pynchon Notes 32-33 entitled The Ideology of Detection in Pynchon and DeLillo.Introducing Don DeLillo (1991)Edited by blustering Lentricchia, 1991. Published by Duke University Press, 221 pages. Lentricchia is the editor of South Atlantic Quarterly and Professor of English at Duke.The book consists of 12 articlesThe American Writer as Bad Citizen by Frank LentricchiaOpposites, Chapter 10 of Ratners Star by Don DeLilloAn Outsider in This Society An Interview with Don DeLillo by Anthony DeCurtis (an expanded version of the November 1988 Rolling Stone interview)How to Read Don DeLillo by Daniel AaronClinging to the Rock A Novelists Choices in the New Mediocracy by Hal Crowther Postmodern Romance Don DeLillo and the Age of federation by JohnA. McClure several(prenominal) Speculations on Don DeLillo and the Cinematic Real by Eugene Goodheart The Product Bucky Wunderlick, Rock n Roll, and Don DeLillos Great Jones Street by Anthony DeCurtis Don DeLillos Perfect Sta rry Night by Charles MolesworthAlphabetic Pleasures The Names by Dennis A. Foster The Last Things Before the Last Notes on White Noise by John Frow Libra as Postmodern Critique by Frank Lentricchia More on Frank and DonJason Camlot delivered an interesting address entitled Frank Lentricchias Don DeLillo Introducing, Postmodern Modernism and the Academic Fear of Death which was given at University of Oregon, May 1993. I am happy to say that this work is now back on the web, hosted here at Don DeLillos America.Heres a tasteWhat, then, can be said to make Lentricchias work as a critic equally relevant and effective? In a most obvious sense, it is the flummox he assumes in relation to the important author that he is introducing that works to establish his own importance. Don Delillo was already a popular author soon after 1985, and by this time he was bonny a significant object of academic attention as well, but these two facts had little objective on one another, but rather were two distinct phenomena. At least this is what Lentricchias role as editor and introducer seems to suggest. It is as if the true social significance of Delillo could not exist until a critic such as Lentricchia recognized it, patented it, in a way, by introducing Delillo as the last of the modernists in the postmodern era.New Essays on White Noise (1991)This is a short book of critical essays on White Noise, which is also edited by Lentricchia, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991 (115 pages).The book has five essaysIntroduction by Frank Lentricchia Whole Families Shopping at Night by Thomas J. Ferraro Adolf, We Hardly Knew You by Paul A. Cantor Lust Removed from Nature by Michael Valdez Moses Tales of the Electronic Tribe by Frank Lentricchia Heres more info on the book.In the wave Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel (1987)By Tom LeClair, 1987. Published by University of Illinois Press, 244 pages. LeClair is Professor of English at University of Cincinnati. This is a look at all of DeLillos novels (through White Noise) in the context of the systems novel. Includes a complete DeLillo bibliography.First Epigraph Somebody ought to make a list of books that seem to bend back on themselves. I think Malcolm Lowry saw Under the Volcano as a wheel-like structure. And in Finnegans Wake were meant to go from the last page to the first. In different ways Ive done this myself. Don DeLillo, Interview, Anything Can HappenFrom the PrefaceIn the Loop also describes the situation of the reader who has already entered a Don DeLillo novel, as my first epigraph suggests. DeLillo consistently creates polarized structuresof genre, situation, character, language, tonethat double the novel back upon itself, questioning its generic codes, its beginnings and development, its creators position toward it, his relation with the reader, who becomes self-conscious, reflective about both his reading and himself, a mobius-stripping away of assumptions about the forms that DeLillo use s, the charged subjects he encircles with his reversals, and the act of reading from beginning to end.Heres the text of a lecture LeClair gave in March 1993 entitled Me and MaoII.Other Books with DeLillo in the TitleCivello, Paul. American Literary Naturalism and its Twentieth-century Transformations Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo. (University of Georgia Press, 1994, 208 pages). Chapters 8-10 deal with DeLillo, End Zone and Libra in particular.Hantke, Steffen. Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary American Fiction The works of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy (Peter Lang, 1994).Weinstein, Arnold. Nobodys Home Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction From Hawthorne to DeLillo (Oxford University Press, 1993, 349 pages). Chapter 14 is Don DeLillo Rendering the Words of the Tribe pages 288-315.Back to DeLillos America Last updated 06-SEP-2010 Send in some news