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Understanding Don DeLillo
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-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.
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Profane Illuminations
ReviewingVinelandforThe New York Times Book Reviewin early 1990, Salman Rushdie concluded an otherwise light-hearted article by modulating the tone of his review to a serious key:
But what is perhaps most interesting, finally, about Mr. Pynchon’s new novel is what is different about it. What is interesting is the willingness with which he addresses, directly, the political development of the United States, and the slow (but not total) steamrollering of a radical tradition many generations and decades older than flower power. . . . What is interesting is to have before us, at the end of
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From Philology to Formalism: Edith Rickert, John Matthews Manly, and the Literary/Reformist Beginnings of U.S. Cryptology
Veggian traces the discursive beginnings of modern cryptology by carefully \"accounting for its emergence and partial detachment from a cluster of late 19th and 20th century debates over language, education, and literature.\" He uses a genealogical method to foreground the relationships between cryptology as a mathematical/linguistic and, interestingly, a militaristic pursuit and formalist and humanistic reading practices. At this intersection he places the work of John Matthews Manly and Martha Edith Rickert, scholars of vast humanistic erudition, deeply interested in and committed to various theoretical explorations and practical applications, and driven, like many others at the time (as well as currently), by a desire \"to reform the study of English literature and rhetoric.\"
Journal Article
East of Eden
This volume includes one dozen new and recent essays on John Steinbeck's East of Eden (1952). First commissioned by the late Professor Michael J. Meyer, a renowned Steinbeck scholar, the volume was originally designed to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the novel's publication. The collection contains critical writings from a variety of literary fields. These include the biographical essay, travel essay, essays on varied themes in Steinbeck's works, writings on critical approaches to Steinbeck and also a new essay on Elia Kazan's film adaptation of the novel. This volume is of interest for the Steinbeck scholar, the literary critic and also the casual reader seeking new ways to understand Steinbeck's novel.
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