Don DeLillo : balance at the edge of belief / [electronic resource]
Kavadlo, Jesse,1971-
New York : Peter Lang,
c2004.
"Don DeLillo 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 faithlessness, 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."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-165) and index.
White noise, mortality, mortality -- Injustice for all : balancing Libra with "American Blood" -- Beyond novelists and terrorists : Mao II -- "The Fall of 1951" : celebration and annihilation in underworld -- Recycling authority : Don DeLillo's waste management -- The body artist; or, How to re-read Don DeLillo.
"Don DeLillo 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 faithlessness, 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."--Jacket.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
DeLillo, Don
Postmodernism (Literature)
Belief and doubt in literature.
Spiritual life in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Belief and doubt in literature
Spiritual life in literature
Subjectivity in literature