Description
Book SynopsisA critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded "Rolling Stone" interview with the author and extracts from his novels.
Table of ContentsThe American Writer as Bad Citizen / Frank Lentricchia 1
"Opposites," Chapter 10 of
Ratner's Star / Don DeLillo 7
"An Outsider in This Society": An Interview with Don DeLillo / Anthony DeCurtis 43
How to Read Don DeLillo / Daniel Aaron 67
Clinging to the Rock: A Novelist's Choices in the New Mediocracy / Hal Crowther 83
Postmodern Romance: Don DeLillo and the Age of Conspiracy / Joahn A. McClure 99
Some Speculations on Don DeLillo and the Cinematic Real / Eugene Goodheart 117
The Product: Bucky Wunderlick, Rock 'n Roll, and Don DeLillo's
Great Jones Street / Anthony DeCurtis 131
Don DeLillo's Perfect Starry Night / Charles Molesworth 143
Alphabetic Pleasures:
The Names / Dennis A. Foster 157
The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on
White Noise / John Frow 175
Libra as Postmodern Critique / Frank Lentricchia 193
List of Don DeLillo's Novels 216
Notes on Contributors 217
Index 219
