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Appreciating Don DeLillo: The Moral Force of a Writer's Work

Autor Paul Giaimo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 2011 – vârsta până la 17 ani
An insightful work providing state-of-the-art critical guidance and informative commentary on the major novels of Don DeLillo in terms of how they respond to current social and ethical issues.Unlike the majority of American academic critics, author Paul Giaimo contends that Don DeLillo's award-winning novels are fully defined by neither postmodernism nor modernism. To demonstrate this thesis, Appreciating Don DeLillo: The Moral Force of a Writer's Work traces DeLillo's style through his novels, showing how it evolved from a recognizably postmodern mode into a realistic treatment of contemporary, postmodern conditions. In this original and nuanced examination, Giaimo discusses themes that range from the devastating portrayals of evil in Mao II, Libra and Cosmopolis, to the good and inspiring confrontation of media stereotypes and urban missionary work in Underworld. The powerful vision of language in The Names and White Noise is examined as a potent moral force of the novels. Equally important is discussion of the cultural background Giaimo believes should inform any reading of DeLillo's work, especially his Italian-American ethnic heritage and the American Catholic church of the 1950s.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780313386244
ISBN-10: 0313386242
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Paul Giaimo, PhD, is instructor of English and philosophy at Highland Community College, Freeport, IL.

Cuprins

PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Don DeLillo and the Novel-Neither Modern nor Postmodern2. Intimations of a Moral Vision in DeLillo's Early Novels3. The Names and White Noise: A New Faith in the Power of Language4. Unspeakable Evil in Libra, Mao II, and Cosmopolis5. Confronting Unspeakable Evil: DeLillo's "Filming" Italian Americans6. The Inner Divisions of People and Systems in Underworld's Roman Catholic Church7. Artists, Writers, and Moral AccountabilityBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Offering an alternative perspective on DeLillo's work, Giaimo raises interesting questions about how best to define DeLillo's novels. . . . Summing Up: Recommended.