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.
| ISBN: | 9780820463513 |
| Publication date: | 2nd December 2003 |
| Author: | Jesse Kavadlo |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 170 pages |
| Series: | Modern American Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Language teaching theory and methods Religion: general |
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.
Don DeLillo features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Language teaching theory and methods, Religion: general
Don DeLillo is available in Hardback
Don DeLillo was written by Jesse Kavadlo and published by Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc.
Don DeLillo has 170 pages
Yes it is part of Modern American Literature series