ENG 332: Contemporary American Literature

In the introduction to this volume, Frank Lentricchia provides an overview of the critical reception of the novel and examines in its context other works by Don DeLillo. The other essays in the volume discuss DeLillo's view of family and divorce, Hitler's role in the 20th century, technology as a mortal threat, and postmodern America. This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach DeLillo's important contemporary work.

Includes relevant chapter: "DeLillo's White Noise"

Includes relevant chapter: "A Capital Death: Medicine, Technology, and the Care of the Self in Don Delillo's White Noise"

Includes relevant chapter: "A Rhetoric of Contingency and Analytic Humanism in Don DeLillo's White Noise"

Includes relevant chapter: "Don Delillo's Academia: Revisiting the New Class in White Noise"

Includes relevant chapter: "White Noise"