Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century American Literature - Post WWII - Literary Criticism, Postmodernism - Literary Movements, Philosophy & Literature, Religion & Literature
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Overview
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.Book Details
Published
January 1, 2004
Publisher
New York : Peter Lang, c2004.
Pages
178
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820463513