1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910659472003321

Autore

Veggian Henry

Titolo

Understanding Don DeLillo / / Henry Veggian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, South Carolina : , : The University of South Carolina Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-61117-445-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Understanding Contemporary American Literature

Disciplina

813.54

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Understanding Don Delillo -- Jargon and genre : Americana, End zone, and Great Jones Street -- Opacity and transparency : White noise and Mao II -- Artists and prophets : The body artist, Cosmopolis, and Falling man -- With, to, and against the novel : the short stories.

Sommario/riassunto

Henry 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-1980's and 1990's, 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910219648603321

Titolo

Revista brasileira de economia de empresas = : Brazilian journal of business economics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brasília, : Universidade Católica de Brasília, Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa, Mestrado em Economia de Empresas, : Editora Universa, 2001-

ISSN

2236-9775

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Business enterprises - Brazil

Business enterprises

Economic history

Periodicals.

Brazil Economic conditions Periodicals

Brazil

Lingua di pubblicazione

Portoghese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed