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OverviewHenry Veggian introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half- century. Winner of the National Book Award, American Book Award, and the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, Don DeLillo is the author of short stories, screenplays, and fifteen novels, including his breakthrough work White Noise (1985) and Pulitzer Prize finalists Mao II (1992) and Underworld (1998). Veggian traces the evolution of DeLillo's work through the three phases of his career as a fiction writer, from the experimental early novels, through the critically acclaimed works of the mid-1980s and 1990s, into the smaller but newly innovative novels of the last decade. He guides readers to DeLillo's principal concerns - the tension between biography and anonymity, the blurred boundary between fiction and historical narrative, and the importance of literary authorship in opposition to various structures of power - and traces the evolution of his changing narrative techniques. Beginning with a brief biography, an introduction to reading strategies, and a survey of the major concepts and questions concerning DeLillo's work, Veggian proceeds chronologically through his major novels. His discussion summarizes complicated plots, reflects critical responses to the author's work, and explains the literary tools used to fashion his characters, narrators, and events. In the concluding chapter Veggian engages notable examples of DeLillo's other modes, particularly the short stories that reveal important insights into his ""modular"" working method as well as the evolution of his novels. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Henry VeggianPublisher: University of South Carolina Press Imprint: University of South Carolina Press Dimensions: Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.80cm Weight: 0.412kg ISBN: 9781611174441ISBN 10: 1611174449 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 30 December 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable ![]() The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsthis is a terrific introduction to DeLillo's fiction. --J. Bishoff, CHOICE Connect Deftly, confidently, Henry Veggian offers a highly readable theoretical and thematic narrative through the notoriously intimidating works of America's finest novelist of the fin-de-millennium. Informed by but not compelled by the critical commentary already on DeLillo, Veggian offers an engaging new way into DeLillo's cultural vision and into the evolution of his formal experimentations, especially the dense texts of the post- 9-11 work and the short fiction. A significant introduction to DeLillo's fiction. --Joseph Dewey, Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLilllo Understanding Don DeLillo represents a very useful tool with which both neophytes and researchers can approach the work of one of the most refined and compelling writers of the contemporary scene Veggian offers a 360-degree view on DeLillo's writing, including those parts generally overlooked by both critics and readers. -- Orbit: A Journal of American Literature This is a terrific introduction to DeLillo's fiction. -- Choice Author InformationHenry Veggian is a lecturer of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He edits for boundary 2 and Rodopi Editions. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |