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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.

DeLillo, Don --- Criticism and interpretation --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- DeLillo, Don - Criticism and interpretation

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DeLillo, Don --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- Criticism and interpretation --- DeLillo, Don - Criticism and interpretation

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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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This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing.

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