Book contents
- Don DeLillo In Context
- Don DeLillo In Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Context, Content, Conflict
- Part I Places
- Part II History and Politics
- Part III Media and Pop Culture
- Part IV Literary Contexts
- Chapter 16 Intertextuality
- Chapter 17 Genre and Genre Theory
- Chapter 18 Modernism and Postmodernism
- Chapter 19 Postmodernism and Literary Criticism
- Part V Material Contexts
- Part VI Social and Cultural Constructions
- Part VII Writing and Writers
- Further Reading
- Index
- References
Chapter 19 - Postmodernism and Literary Criticism
Postmodernism and Its Discontents, Or, The Cultural Logic of Don DeLillo
from Part IV - Literary Contexts
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Book contents
- Don DeLillo In Context
- Don DeLillo In Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Context, Content, Conflict
- Part I Places
- Part II History and Politics
- Part III Media and Pop Culture
- Part IV Literary Contexts
- Chapter 16 Intertextuality
- Chapter 17 Genre and Genre Theory
- Chapter 18 Modernism and Postmodernism
- Chapter 19 Postmodernism and Literary Criticism
- Part V Material Contexts
- Part VI Social and Cultural Constructions
- Part VII Writing and Writers
- Further Reading
- Index
- References
Summary
Discussing DeLillo's relationship with postmodernism, with a focus on DeLillo's responses to critical and literary theory and the labels that critics have ascribed to his work.
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- Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 179 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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