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Henry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half- century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don DeLillo is the author of short stories, screenplays, and fifteen novels, including his breakthrough work White Noise (1985) and Pulitzer Prize finalists Mao II (1992) and Underworld (1998). Veggian traces the evolution of DeLillo's work through the three phases of his career as a fiction writer, from the experimental early novels, through the critically acclaimed works of the mid-1980's and 1990's, into the smaller but newly innovative novels of the last decade. He guides readers to DeLillo's principal concerns--the tension between biography and anonymity, the blurred boundary between fiction and historical narrative, and the importance of literary authorship in opposition to various structures of power--and traces the evolution of his changing narrative techniques. Beginning with a brief biography, an introduction to reading strategies, and a survey of the major concepts and questions concerning DeLillo's work, Veggian proceeds chronologically through his major novels. His discussion summarizes complicated plots, reflects critical responses to the author's work, and explains the literary tools used to fashion his characters, narrators, and events. In the concluding chapter Veggian engages notable examples of DeLillo's other modes, particularly the short stories that reveal important insights into his "modular" working method as well as the evolution of his novels.

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With the publication of his seminal novel White Noise, Don DeLillo was elevated into the pantheon of great American writers. His novels are admired and studied for their narrative technique, political themes, and their prophetic commentary on the cultural crises affecting contemporary America. In an age dominated by the image, DeLillo's fiction encourages the reader to think historically about such matters as the Cold War, the assassination of President Kennedy, threats to the environment, and terrorism. This Companion charts the shape of DeLillo's career, his relation to twentieth-century aesthetics, and his major themes. It also provides in-depth assessments of his best-known novels, White Noise, Libra, and Underworld, which have become required reading not only for students of American literature, but for all interested in the history and the future of American culture.

DeLillo, Don --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- DeLillo, Don - Criticism and interpretation --- DeLillo, Don (1936-....) --- Critique et interprétation

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American fiction --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Acker, Kathy, --- DeLillo, Don --- Reed, Ishmael, --- Coleman, Emmett, --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- Fear, Clay, --- Black Tarantula, --- Technique. --- Acker, Kathy --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- POSTMODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- REED (ISHMAEL), 1938 --- -ACKER (KATHY), 1948 --- -DELILLO (DON), 1936 --- -20E SIECLE --- ETATS-UNIS --- ART D'ECRIRE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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In America, authors are as likely to be seen on television talk shows or magazine covers as in the more traditional settings of literary festivals or book signings. Is this literary celebrity just another result of 'dumbing down'? Yet another example of the mass media turning everything into entertainment? Or is it a much more unstable, complex phenomenon? And what does the American experience tell us about the future of British literary celebrity?In Star Authors, Joe Moran shows how publishers, the media and authors themselves create and disseminate literary celebrity. He looks at such famous contemporary authors as Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, John Updike, Philip Roth, Kathy Acker, Nicholson Baker, Paul Auster and Jay McInerney. Through an examination of their own work, biographical information, media representations and promotional material, Moran illustrates the nature of modern literary celebrity. He argues that authors actively negotiate their own celebrity rather than simply having it imposed upon them - from reclusive authors such as Salinger and Pynchon, famed for their very lack of public engagement, to media-friendly authors such as Updike and McInerney. Star Authors analyses literary celebrity in the context of the historical links between literature, advertising and publicity in America; the economics of literary production; and the cultural capital involved in the marketing and consumption of books and authors.

American literature --- Authors and readers --- Popular culture --- Celebrities --- Canon (Literature) --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Criticism --- Literature --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Acker, Kathy, --- DeLillo, Don --- Updike, John --- Roth, Philip --- Roth, Philip Milton --- Apdajk, Džon --- Apdaĭk, Dzhon --- אפדייק, ג"ון --- أبدايك، جون --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- Fear, Clay, --- Black Tarantula, --- Appreciation --- Rʺut, Bhilip --- Рот, Филип --- Rot, Filip --- רות, פיליפ --- ロス, フィリップ --- Acker, Kathy