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.
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.
- 289 pages
- English
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The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 How to make metafiction: A genealogy for Don DeLillo’s self-reflexive art
- 2 American Narcissus: Lacanian reflections in Americana
- 3 Libranth : Nicholas Branch’s Joycean labyrinth
- 4 “The Martiniad”: Nick Shay as embedded author in Underworld
- 5 The artistic gestation of Klara Sax
- 6 Performing self-dialogue in “The DeLillo variations”
- 7 Art stalkers
- 8 Literary triangulation: DeLillo-O’Hara-Oates
- 9 A miniature star: Remains and returns in the metafiction of Zero K
- 10 A portrait of the ARTIS: Jeff Lockhart as embedded author in Zero K
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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