Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief (Modern American Literature, Band 40) - Hardcover

Kavadlo, Jesse

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820463515 ISBN 13: 9780820463513

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Don DeLillo – winner of the National Book Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize – is one of the most important novelists of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. While his work can be understood and taught as prescient and postmodern examples of millennial culture, this book argues that DeLillo’s recent novels – White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, and The Body Artist – are more concerned with spiritual crisis. Although DeLillo’s worlds are rife with rejection of belief and littered with faithfulness, estrangement, and desperation, his novels provide a balancing moral corrective against the conditions they describe. Speaking the vernacular of contemporary America, DeLillo explores the mysteries of what it means to be human.

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The Author: Jesse Kavadlo is Assistant Professor of English at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. in English from Fordham University and his M.A. from Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He has published essays in professional journals on American literature, European literature, and critical theory.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820463515
• ISBN 13: 9780820463513
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
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