{"product_id":"don-delillo-in-context-hardback-9781316515433","title":"Don DeLillo In Context (Hardback) 9781316515433","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDon DeLillo In Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book uses a variety of frameworks to provide readers with ways into understanding Don DeLillo's prodigious body of work.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJesse Kavadlo (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316515433, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e375 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.7 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDon DeLillo is one of the most important novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Yet despite DeLillo's prolific output and scholarly recognition, much of the attention has gone to his works individually, rather than collectively or thematically. This volume provides separate entries into the wide variety and categories of contexts that surround and help illuminate DeLillo's writings. Don DeLillo in Context examines how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding DeLillo's prodigious body of work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Context, content, conflict Jesse Kavadlo\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Places: 1. New York reassessing the topography of newyork city in Don Delillo's fiction Alan Gravano\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Bronx Don Delillo's underworlds: mystery and manners Jacqueline A. Zubeck\u003cbr\u003e 3. The American Southwest 'Texas is the reason:' running dog, point omega and Delillo's 'southwest' Henry Veggian\u003cbr\u003e 4. The World Delillo abroad Cornelius Collins\u003cbr\u003e Part II. History and Politics: 5. The cold war the rules, norms, games, and professions of Delillo's cold war Alan Nadel\u003cbr\u003e 6. The John F. Kennedy assassination paranoid suspicions Skip Willman\u003cbr\u003e 7. Terrorism terrorism as context in Delillo Margaret Scanlan\u003cbr\u003e 8. The twenty-first century March madness: Don Delillo in the age of global interdependence Marni Gauthier\u003cbr\u003e 9. Prescience the idea of the future Paul PetrovicI\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Media and Pop Culture: 10. Film Don Delillo, the movie Timothy Parrish\u003cbr\u003e 11. Television and mass media 'the nausea of news and traffic' Crystal AlbertsI\u003cbr\u003e 12. Plays and performance dramatic contexts Rebecca Rey\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sports 'fascinating ways to lose a game' Mike Witcombe\u003cbr\u003e 14. The internet everything is connected: Delillo and internet culture Andrew Strombeck\u003cbr\u003e 15. Signs print, image, and visual media Joseph Conte\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Literary Contexts: 16. Intertextuality 'an attempt to find pattern and motive': text, context, intertext Laura Barrett\u003cbr\u003e 17. Genre and genre theory bold new forms: genre and the generic Jeffrey Severs\u003cbr\u003e 18. Modernism and postmodernism a quantum perspective: modernist depths and post-modernist connections Samuel Chase Coale\u003cbr\u003e 19. Postmodernism and literary criticism postmodernism and its discontents, or, the cultural logic of don delillo Katie Muth\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Material Contexts: 20. Technology science\/fiction Randy Laist\u003cbr\u003e 21. The environment postmodern ecology in Don Delillo's fiction Elise Martucci\u003cbr\u003e 22. Materiality violence and the body Rebecca Harding, university of Sussex\u003cbr\u003e 23. Death (not) moving deathward: the living and the undead in delillo's late works Mark Osteen\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Social and Cultural Constructions: 24. Religion and spirituality meditations on mystery Graley Herren\u003cbr\u003e 25. Race white male mobility Tim Engles\u003cbr\u003e 26. Ethnicity DeLillo and Italian America John Paul Russo\u003cbr\u003e 27. Gender masculine and feminine subjectivity Anne Longmuir\u003cbr\u003e 28. Time still life Catherine Gander\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. Writing and Writers: 29. The concept of authorship self\/referentiality Marjorie Worthington\u003cbr\u003e 30. The writing process 'a book determines its own dimensions': observing, writing, typing Harold K. Bush\u003cbr\u003e 31. Advertising copywriting aesthetics Aaron DeRosa\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: DeLillo's literary legacy DeLillo as context David Cowart\u003cbr\u003e Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004142965016,"sku":"9781316515433","price":76.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781316515433i.jpg?v=1696681704","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/don-delillo-in-context-hardback-9781316515433","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}