New Essays on White Noise

This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach Delillo's important contemporary work.

Frank Lentricchia (Edited by)

9780521398930, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 30 August 1991

128 pages
22.2 x 14.4 x 0.9 cm, 0.17 kg

White Noise, the story of a professor of Hitler Studies and his family was DeLillo's breakthrough book and has received much attention and critical acclaim. In the introduction to this volume, Frank Lentricchia provides an overview of the critical reception of the novel and examines it in the context of other works by Don DeLillo. The other essays in the volume discuss DeLillo's view of family and divorce, Hitler's role in the twentieth century, technology as a mortal threat, and postmodern America. This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach DeLillo's important contemporary work.

Series editor's preface
1. Introduction Frank Lentricchia
2. Whole families shopping at night! Thomas J. Ferranro
3. 'Adolf, we hardly knew you' Paul A. Cantor
4. Lust removed from nature Michael Valdez Moses
5. Tales of the electronic tribe Frank Lentricchia
Notes on contributors
Bibliographical note.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]