Introducing Don DeLillo is the first book-length collection of essays on Don DeLillo, including as well the extraordinary tenth chapter of Ratner's Star and an interview with the author.What is characteristic about DeLillo's books, aside from their contemporary subjects, is their irredeemably heterogeneous texture; they are montages of tones, styles, and voices that have the effect of yoking together terror and wild humor as the essential tone of contemporary America.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The American Writer as Bad Citizen / Frank Lentricchia 1
"Opposites," Chapter 10 of Ratner's Star / Don DeLillo 7
"An Outsider in This Society": An Interview with Don DeLillo / Anthony DeCurtis 43
How to Read Don DeLillo / Daniel Aaron 67
Clinging to the Rock: A Novelist's Choices in the New Mediocracy / Hal Crowther 83
Postmodern Romance: Don DeLillo and the Age of Conspiracy / Joahn A. McClure 99
Some Speculations on Don DeLillo and the Cinematic Real / Eugene Goodheart 117
The Product: Bucky Wunderlick, Rock 'n Roll, and Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street / Anthony DeCurtis 131
Don DeLillo's Perfect Starry Night / Charles Molesworth 143
Alphabetic Pleasures: The Names / Dennis A. Foster 157
The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise / John Frow 175
Libra as Postmodern Critique / Frank Lentricchia 193
List of Don DeLillo's Novels 216
Notes on Contributors 217
Index 219
