Elise Martucci

The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a socio-historic and ecocritical reading of Don DeLillo's novels, arguing that the emphasis on place in DeLillo's work distinguishes him from other postmodern writers and demonstrates the environmental significance of his fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780415803045
• ISBN-10: 0415803047
• Artikelnr.: 26678418

Autorenporträt

Elise Martucci is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Westchester Community College, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Permissions
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: DeLillo, Postmodernism, and the Nature of Nature
Chapter Two: How Real the Landscape Truly Was: Reading Americana as a
Pastoral Critique
Chapter Three: The Names: Discovering the Deeper Textures
Chapter Four: White Noise: A Level of Experience to which We Will Gradually
Adjust
Chapter Five: Taking Meaning out into the Streets: The Significance of
Place in Underworld
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index