Beyond grief and nothing : a reading of Don DeLillo
"In the closing decade of the twentieth century, Don DeLillo emerged from the privileged status of a writer's writer to become by any measure - productivity, influence, scope, gravitas - the dominant novelist of fin de millennium America. With a series of landmark titles beginning in 1982 with The Names and continuing with White Noise and Underworld, DeLillo defined himself as a provocative, articulate anatomist of American culture. In Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, Joseph Dewey offers an astute assessment of these daunting yet important writer's four decade cultural critique
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C., ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
172 pages ; 24 cm
9781570036446, 1570036446
65521513
The writer
Narratives of retreat
Americana
End zone
Great Jones Street
Ratner's star
Narratives of failed engagement
Players
Running dog
Amazons
The engineer of moonlight
Narratives of recovery
The names
White noise
The day room
Narratives of redemption
Libra
Mao II
Underworld
Parables of resurrection
Valparaiso
The body artist
Cosmopolis
Love-lies-bleeding