TEST1 Introducing Don DeLillo
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

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TEST1 Introducing Don DeLillo
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

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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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822381679
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 08/31/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 263 KB

Table of Contents

Contents
The American Writer as Bad Citizen LENTRICCHIA FRANK
“Opposites,” Chapter 10 of Ratner's Star DeLILLO DON
“An Outsider in This Society”: An Interview with Don DeLillo DeCURTIS ANTHONY
How to Read Don DeLillo AARON DANIEL
Clinging to the Rock: A Novelist's Choices in the New Mediocracy CROWTHER HAL
Postmodern Romance: Don DeLillo and the Age of Conspiracy McCLURE JOHN A.
Some Speculations on Don DeLillo and the Cinematic Real GOODHEART EUGENE
The Product: Bucky Wunderlick, Rock 'n Roll, and Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street DeCURTIS ANTHONY
Don DeLillo's Perfect Starry Night MOLESWORTH CHARLES
Alphabetic Pleasures: The Names FOSTER DENNIS A.
The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise FROW JOHN
Libra as Postmodern Critique LENTRICCHIA FRANK
List of Don DeLillo's Novels
Notes on Contributors
Index
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