Full Description
The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Don DeLillo's career-long engagements with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts. Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international contributors, including established voices in DeLillo criticism and emerging experts, the volume forges new paths in the study of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Beginning with a section dedicated to experiential and political aesthetics in DeLillo's work, the Companion offers new perspectives on the forms and functions of the arts across DeLillo's entire oeuvre—from his first novel Americana, through his plays, essays, short stories, to his latest novel, The Silence. This exciting Companion is a genuine intervention in DeLillo scholarship by offering an interdisciplinary examination of his work across forms, media, method, and theory.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Ways of Seeing / Don DeLillo and the Arts - Catherine Gander
Part I: DeLillo and Aesthetics: Art as Experience
A Tender Experience: Aesthetics of Death in DeLillo's Fiction - Peter Boxall
The Art of Feeling - Alexandra Kingston-Reese
The Art of War - Margaret Scanlan
The Art Encounter - Jonathan Gibbs
Part II: Visual Arts and Cultures
Radiance and Repetition: DeLillo's Icons - Sarah Garland
L'objet trouvé and the Pressure of History: DeLillo's Aesthetic of Found Things and the 1970s - Tim Jelfs
DeLillo's Photo Opportunity - Monika Gehlawat
Where Have All the Writers Gone? Art and Vision in DeLillo's Later Works - Laura Barrett
DeLillo's Landscapes - Elise Martucci
DeLillo in Colour - Brian Jarvis
Part III: Literary Arts
The Art of Editing - Tim Groenland
Poetry - Catherine Gander
Ekphrasis - Graley Herren
Staged Events: Don DeLillo, The Short Story, Intellectuals and The Arts - Henry Veggian
Joycean DeLillo - Kiron Ward
DeLilloesque: DeLillo's Cultural Impact - Andrew Hoberek
Part IV: Film, Screens, and Technology
DeLillo and the Cinematic Long Take - David Hering
Thematic Equivalence and Ontological Ambivalence: Film Adaptations of the Works of Don DeLillo - Cristina Garrigós
Video Art and the Elasticity of Duration - Catherine Morley
Screen, Image and the Technological Sublime - Joseph M. Conte
Screening Fundamentalism, Fanaticism and Terrorism in DeLillo's Post-9/11 Fiction - Liliana M. Naydan
The Digital Physics of Reading DeLillo - Licheng Xie
Part V: Embodied Arts: Performance and Spectacle
Phones, Words and Silences: On Performance and Performativity in DeLillo's Narrators - Jesse Kavadlo
DeLillo Across Page and Stage - Rebecca Rey
Transforming the Spectacle in DeLillo's Late Novels - Pavlina Radia
DeLillo's Performances of Abjection - Kelsie Donnelly
Part VI: Place, Site, Space
DeLillo and Land Art - Katie da Cunha Lewin
DeLillo and the Gallery - David Coughlan
Time and Loss: DeLillo and the Imagination of Archaeology - David Cowart
Going Up in the World: Architecture in the Works of Don DeLillo - Margaret Robson
'Bird Lives': The High Art of Graffiti in Don DeLillo - Michael Naas
Notes on Contributors
Index
