Don Delillo - The Possibility of Fiction

One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his oeuvre within a wider analysis of the condition of contemporary fiction, and dealing with his entire work in relation to contemporary political and economic concerns for the fist time.

Providing a lucid and nuanced reading of DeLillo's ambivalent engagement with American and European culture, as well as with modernism and postmodernism, and globalization and terrorism, this fascinating volume interrogates the critical and aesthetic capacities of fiction in what is an age of global capitalism and US cultural imperialism.

List of contents

Part 1. The Seventies Part 2. The Eighties Part 3. The Nineties Coda: Ground Zero

About the author

Peter Boxall is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Sussex. He has published widely on modernist and postmodernist literature, in Europe and the USA.

Summary

One of the very few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph provides the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Boxall, BOXALL PETER
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.2012
• EAN: 9780415649094
• ISBN: 978-0-415-64909-4
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature; Routledge Transnational Perspe; Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000