Don DeLillo - Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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. 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.>

About the author

Katherine Da Cunha Lewin is a tutor in American Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, where she received her PhD in 2017. Her research reads the work of Don DeLillo and J. M. Coetzee together as a means of exploring interiority and interior spaces in the novel. She recently completed a biographic entry on Don DeLillo for the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century Novelists, forthcoming in 2018.Kiron Ward is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St. Andrews, UK. His latest publications include Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (with Katherine Da Cunha Lewin; Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), Enycyclopedia Joyce (with James Blackwell Phelan; James Joyce Quarterly, 2019), and James Joyce’s Ulysses at 100 (with E. Paige Miller; Textual Practice, 2022).

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Da Cunha Lewin, Katherine Da Cunha (University of Sussex Lewin, Katherine Da Cunha Ward Lewin, Kiron Ward
• Assisted by: Jeannette Baxter (Editor), Katherine Da Cunha Lewin (Editor), Katherine Da Cunha (University of Sussex Lewin (Editor), Kiron Ward (Editor), Kiron (University of East Anglia Ward (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781350040861
• ISBN: 978-1-350-04086-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives; Contemporary Critical Perspect; Contemporary Critical Perspectives; Contemporary Critical Perspect
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 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, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form