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Zusatztext This collection reads less like an anthology than a cohesive examination of DeLillo’s recent work, creating intellectual momentum where essays anticipate and reinforce each other as ideas echo across texts ... This results in a collection greater than the sum of its parts. Informationen zum Autor Stacey Olster is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. She is the author of Reminiscence and Re-Creation in Contemporary American Fiction (1989) and The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century (2003), and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to John Updike (2006). Stacey Olster is Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Klappentext A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. Vorwort A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Don DeLillo and the Dream Release Stacey Olster \ PART I: Mao II \ Introduction \ 1. Delphic DeLillo: Mao II and Millennial Dread, David Cowart \ 2. Mao II, and the New World Order, Peter Knight \ 3. Mao II and Mixed Media, Laura Barrett \ PART II: Underworld \ Introduction \ 4. Underworld, Memory, and the Recycling of Cold War Narrative, Thomas Hill Schaub \ 5. Underworld and the Architecture of Urban Space, David L. Pike \ 6. Underworld, Ethnicity, and Found Object Art: Reason and Revelation, Josephine Gattuso Hendin \ PART III. Falling Man \ Introduction \ 7. Global Horizons in Falling Man, John Carlos Rowe \ 8. Bodies in Rest and Motion in Falling Man, Linda S. Kauffman \ Notes on Contributors \ Further Reading \ Index
