Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don Delillo - Hardcover

Dewey, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570036446 ISBN 13: 9781570036446

Verlag: University of South Carolina Press, 2007

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In the closing decade of the twentieth century, Don DeLillo emerged from the privileged status of a writer's writer to become by any measure - productivity, influence, scope, gravitas - the dominant novelist of fin-de-millennium America. Beginning in 1982 with ""The Names and continuing with White Noise and Underworld"", DeLillo defined himself as a provocative, articulate anatomist of American culture. Dewey offers an astute assessment of this daunting yet important writer's four-decade cultural critique. Dewey finds DeLillo's concerns to be organized around three rubrics that mark the writer's own creative evolution: the love of the street, the embrace of the word, and the celebration of the soul. Dewey takes the reader through the novelist's hip avant-garde satires of the mid-1960s, his dense interrogations of the power of language and the spell of narrative in the 1980s and 1990s, and his recent efforts to transcend the immediate. Dewey explores DeLillo's fascination with Eastern philosophies, interest in Native American traditions, passion for jazz, and deep roots in Catholicism.

Biografía del autor

An associate professor of American literature at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Joseph Dewey is the author of Understanding Richard Powers, Novels from Reagan's America: A New Realism, and In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age and coeditor of Under Words: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld.

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• Verlag: University of South Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1570036446
• ISBN 13: 9781570036446
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184