Don DeLillo by Kiron Ward

Don DeLillo by Kiron Ward

Don DeLillo is widely regarded as one of the most significant, and prescient, writers of our time. Since the 1960s, DeLillo’s fiction has been at the cutting edge of thought on American identity, globalization, technology, environmental destruction, and terrorism, always with a distinctively macabre and humorous eye. Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of the contemporary American novel to guide readers through DeLillo’s oeuvre, from his early short stories through to 2016’s Zero K, including his theatrical work. As well as critically exploring DeLillo’s engagement with key contemporary themes, the book also includes a new interview with the author, annotated guides to further reading, and a chronology of his life and work.

Lewin (Univof Sussex, UK) and Ward (Univ. of East Anglia, UK) include nine essays and a closing interview with DeLillo in this book, which joins a growing literature on DeLillo … The larger intent of all the essays is to suggest that the end is near, that parameters set up do not allow the individual to go beyond the opiate of mass consumerism, that this is the limit. In the closing interview, DeLillo poses the question of whether advanced technology will improve human consciousness or destroy it. Notes follow individual essays; the bibliography is extensive. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE *

Katherine Da Cunha Lewin teaches English Literature and American Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Kiron Ward is a Teaching Fellow in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Sussex, UK.

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ISBN 13	9781350160064
ISBN 10	1350160067
Title	Don DeLillo
Author	Kiron Ward
Series	Contemporary Critical Perspectives
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2020-04-30
Number of pages	216
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