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Author_Joseph Dewey
Blind Chance
Boredom
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Dead-end job
Deadpan
Deaf-mute
Distrust
Don DeLillo
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Insignificance
Kitsch
Narrative
Non-fiction
Nonsense
Obscenity
Pessimism
Superficiality
The Unnamed
The Unsuspected
Toothless
Vulnerability
Product details
- ISBN 9781570036446
- Weight: 395g
- Dimensions: 160 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2006
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
