Appreciating Don DeLillo
Subtitle: the moral force of a writer's work
By: Paul Giaimo
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780313386244; 9780313386251
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Ethics in literature; Good and evil in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-184) and index.
Table of contents: title: Don Delillo and the novel-neither modern nor postmodern; title: Intimations of a moral vision in Delillo's early novels; title: The names and white noise: a new faith in the power of language; title: Unspeakable evil in Libra, Mao 2 , and Cosmopolis; title: Confronting unspeakable evil: Delillo's "filming" Italian Americans; title: The inner divisions of people and systems in Underworld's Roman Catholic Church; title: Artists, writers, and moral accountability.