Title: Beyond grief and nothing : a reading of Don DeLillo /
Authors: Dewey, Joseph, 1957-
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: DeLillo, Don Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: "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. With a series of landmark titles beginning in 1982 with The Names and continuing with White Noise and Underworld, DeLillo defined himself as a provocative, articulate anatomist of American culture. In Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo, Joseph Dewey offers an astute assessment of these daunting yet important writer's four decade cultural critique.
Contents: The writer -- Narratives of retreat -- Americana -- End zone -- Great Jones Street -- Ratner's star -- Narratives of failed engagement -- Players -- Running dog -- Amazons -- The engineer of moonlight -- Narratives of recovery -- The names -- White noise -- The day room -- Narratives of redemption -- Libra -- Mao II -- Underworld -- Parables of resurrection -- Valparaiso -- The body artist -- Cosmopolis -- Love-lies-bleeding.