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A pioneering collection of international scholarship on Don DeLillo's engagement with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international contributors, including established voices in DeLillo criticism and emerging experts, this volume forges new paths in the study of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a section dedicated to experiential and political aesthetics in DeLillo's work, the Companion offers new perspectives on the forms and functions of the arts across DeLillo's entire oeuvre--from his first novel Americana, through his plays, essays, and short stories, to his latest novel, The Silence. This exciting Companion is a genuine intervention in DeLillo scholarship, offering an interdisciplinary examination of his work across forms, media, and methods. Catherine Gander is Associate Professor of American Literature at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is author of several journal articles and chapters on Don DeLillo, American poetry and the interarts. Her publications include Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection (EUP 2013) and Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (with Sarah Garland, 2016).
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Catherine Gander is Associate Professor of American Literature at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is author of several journal articles and chapters on Don DeLillo, American poetry and the interarts. She is the author of
Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection (EUP, 2013; winner of the IAAS book award) and
Extending the Document: Contemporary Transmedial Poetics (forthcoming). She is co-editor and contributor to
Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (2016) as well as editor of special journal issues on Muriel Rukeyser and on the American Imagetext. She is the Chair (2019-) of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS).
