Approaches to Teaching Delillo's White Noise

Informationen zum Autor Tim Engles, associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, is coeditor with Hugh Ruppersburg of Critical Essays on Don Delillo . He has written on the works of Tim O'Brien, Chang-rae Lee, and Alice Walker. He is currently studying whiteness and cultural identity in contemporary American literature, film, and the visual arts. John N. Duvall is professor of English at Purdue University and the editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies . His books include Faulkner's Marginal Couple ; The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison ; Don DeLillo's Underworld; and, as editor, Productive Postmodernism and Faulkner and Postmodernism . He is currently studying the figurative use of blackness in Faulkner and other southern writers. Klappentext Don DeLillo's satiric novel White Noise! prophetic in 1985 about American society's rampant consumerism! information overload! overreliance on the media! and environmental problems! may seem to today's students simply a description of their lived reality. The challenge for teachers! then! is to help them appreciate both the postmodern qualities of the novel and its social critique. Zusammenfassung Don DeLillo’s satiric novel White Noise, prophetic in 1985 about American society’s rampant consumerism, information overload, overreliance on the media, and environmental problems, may seem to today’s students simply a description of their lived reality. The challenge for teachers, then, is to help them appreciate both the postmodern qualities of the novel and its social critique.

Product details

• Authors: Engles, Tim (EDT)/ Duvall Engles
• Assisted by: John N (Purdue University Duvall (Editor), John N. Duvall (Editor), Tim Engles (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2006
• EAN: 9780873529181
• ISBN: 978-0-87352-918-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World L
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics