Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo

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Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Author: Graley Herren

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Language: English

Published by: Bloomsbury Academic

Published on: 27th June 2019

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 288 pages

ISBN: 9781501345067


About the Book

Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo is the first book devoted to this dimension of DeLillo's art.

Key Themes

It is also the first book to identify and analyze a signature DeLillo motif: the embedded author. In multiple novels, short stories, and plays, DeLillo inserts a character subtly implied as the creator of the very narrative we are reading or watching. Spanning his entire career but focusing primarily on his work from Underworld (1997) to Zero K (2016), The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo breaks important new ground in DeLillo studies.

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