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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: Context, Content, Conflict |
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1 New York City: Reassessing the Topography of New York City in Don DeLillo's Fiction |
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2 The Bronx: Don DeLillo's Underworlds: Mystery and Manners |
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3 The American Southwest: "Texas Is the Reason": Running Dog, Point Omega, and DeLillo's "Southwest" |
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26 | (13) |
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4 The World: DeLillo Abroad |
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39 | (8) |
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PART II HISTORY AND POLITICS |
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5 The Cold War: The Rules, Norms, Games, and Professions of DeLillo's Cold War |
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49 | (9) |
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6 The Kennedy Assassination: Paranoid Suspicions |
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58 | (10) |
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7 Terrorism: Terrorism as Context in DeLillo |
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68 | (9) |
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8 The Twenty-First Century: March Madness: Don DeLillo in the Age of Global Interdependence |
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77 | (14) |
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9 Prescience: The Idea of the Future |
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91 | (8) |
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PART III MEDIA AND POP CULTURE |
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10 Film: Don DeLillo, the Movie |
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101 | (8) |
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11 Television and Mass Media: "The Nausea of News and Traffic" |
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109 | (8) |
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12 Plays and Performance: Dramatic Contexts |
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117 | (9) |
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13 Sports: "Fascinating Ways to Lose a Game" |
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126 | (10) |
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14 The Internet: Everything Is Connected: DeLillo and Internet Culture |
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136 | (8) |
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15 Signs: Print, Image, and Digital Media in DeLillo |
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144 | (9) |
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PART IV LITERARY CONTEXTS |
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153 | (34) |
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16 Intertextuality: "An Attempt to Find Pattern and Motive": Text, Context, Intertext |
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155 | (10) |
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17 Genre and Genre Theory: Bold New Forms: Genre and the Generic |
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165 | (7) |
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18 Modernism and Postmodernism: A Quantum Perspective: Modernist Depths and PostModernist Connections |
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172 | (7) |
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19 Postmodernism and Literary Criticism: Postmodernism and Its Discontents, Or, The Cultural Logic of Don DeLillo |
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179 | (8) |
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187 | (40) |
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20 Technology: Science/Fiction |
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189 | (7) |
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21 The Environment: Postmodern Ecology in Don DeLillo's Fiction |
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196 | (11) |
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22 Materiality: Violence and the Body |
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207 | (10) |
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23 Death: (Not) Moving Deathward: The Living and the Undead in DeLillo's Late Works |
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217 | (10) |
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PART VI SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS |
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227 | (2) |
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24 Religion and Spirituality: Meditations on Mystery |
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229 | (14) |
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25 Race: White Male Mobility |
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243 | (9) |
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26 Ethnicity: DeLillo and Italian America |
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252 | (8) |
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27 Gender: Masculine and Feminine Subjectivity |
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260 | (10) |
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270 | (10) |
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PART VII WRITING AND WRITERS |
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29 The Concept of Authorship: Self/Referentiality |
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283 | (8) |
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30 The Writing Process: "A Book Determines Its Own Dimensions": Observing, Writing, Typing |
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291 | (8) |
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31 Advertising: Copywriting Aesthetics |
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Conclusion: Don DeLillo's Literary Legacy: DeLillo As Context |
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309 | (9) |
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Further Reading |
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318 | (8) |
Index |
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