... success- fully Wurst uses her capacious knowledge of Plath’s Journals to illustrate how difficult Plath found it to articulate female subjectivity in her poetry. Leonard M. Scigaj, Virginia Tech The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo. By Tony Tan- ner. New York: Cambridge...

...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture . By Lisa Woolfork. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. xi, 233 pp. $40.00. Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo...

... Dickie’s suggestive readings inspire other critics to continue and extend her efforts. KathrynR.Kent,WilliamsCollege American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo’s Dialogue with Culture. By Mark Osteen. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. 299 pp. $42.50. Until lately, four books have been...

...Nicole M. Merola This essay considers Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003) as a literary act of witnessing that diagnoses the devastating socioecological footprint of globalized cybercapitalism. Employing Marxist and ecocritical accounts of materiality and environment as analytic categories, Merola...

... that traumatic events produce formal changes in narrative strategies that reflect transformations in historical and political thinking, but many 9/11 novels, like Don DeLillo's Falling Man , do not demonstrate significant formal departures from pre-9/11 works. Others, like Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud...

... of boundaries between body and environment, pub- lic and domestic space, and harmful and beneficial technologies. My analysis begins with Don DeLillo’s postmodern classic White Noise, whose exploration of a local risk scenario by means of satire raises complex questions about the role of realism...

... monograph is thus organized not chronologically (as are Apap’s and Brigham’s) but by types—supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums—that showcase how sites allow insight into the processes of social life. Reading works by Don DeLillo, Kerouac, Joan Didion, William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon...

... personal and literary journey through the tangled webs of Southern literature. Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo. By Joseph Dewey. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 2006. 172 pp. $34.95. This volume surveys the four-decade-long reign of DeLillo as a major voice...

... the ways indeterminacy plays out in the texts of Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, and Thomas Pynchon. He argues that behind their “postmodern consciousness” (7) is the foundational influence of quantum theory. “We can see the similarity,” he writes, “between Derrida’s vision and the quantum world...

... fiction the “heterotopic co-presence” (6) of literatures such as the presence of Goethe in Yoko Tawada, Haiti in William Faulkner, China in Don DeLillo. Despite its polemical purpose, Reading for the Planet has the rather modest goal of articulating a planetary reading model that attends to the “micro...

... as an organizing principle, but Ganguly—in a move appropriate for her historical focus—reads a group of novelists in conversation with one another from across international borders. These are the authors of the “global novel”: Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Joe Sacco, Michael Ondaatje, and others...

... with their novelistic predecessors” (188). Although they take up different novels—the only authors treated in both books are Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo—the two studies focus on a fairly familiar body of major, frequently taught American novelists; both suggest a canon in need of re-reading and key terms ripe...

...: apothegms and dicta, wise sayings, sardonic maxims, and the summons, among others. Letzler’s project is much more strident in tone and, though among the authors he covers are a number of contemporary Americans—William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace—who have received no shortage...

... century—including work by Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Jacobs, Willa Cather, Flannery O’Connor, and Don DeLillo—Voelz emphasizes the differing literary and aesthetic strategies the works he investigates deploy to recuperate the pleasures, ambiguities, and multiple uses of security and insecurity...

... (1987) and Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985). Both these writers rework their romantic inheritance, however. In McEwan’s novel, the child represents not simply a nostalgic escape from time but also a vehicle for growth and self...

... in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. By James Gourley. New York: Bloomsbury. 2013. 189 pp. Cloth, $110.00; e-book, $98.99. Pynchon and DeLillo, Gourley argues, are “emblematic” of the genre of the “September 11 novel” because of their canonicity, their relationship to New York...

...- mize the literary protocols of epiphany and lay out the reasons for postmod- ern wariness; the second three chapters, which probe how DeLillo, Kerouac, and Bellow rely on these moments of transfiguration to move their narratives...

.... The book can be divided into three parts: the first three chapters, which anato- mize the literary protocols of epiphany and lay out the reasons for postmod- ern wariness; the second three chapters, which probe how DeLillo, Kerouac...

... of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture, 198–200. Review: Levin, Bohemia in America, 1858–1920, 198–200. Melehy, Hassan. “Literatures of Exile and Return: Jack Kerouac and Quebec,” 589–615. Merola, Nicole M. “Cosmopolis: Don DeLillo’s Melancholy Political Ecology,” 827–53...

... Dickie’s suggestive readings inspire other critics to continue and extend her efforts. KathrynR.Kent,WilliamsCollege American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo’s Dialogue with Culture. By Mark Osteen. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. 299 pp. $42.50. Until lately, four books have been...