Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is the story of Jack and Babette and their children from their six or so various marriages. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading from the tabloids to a group of elderly shut-ins. They are happy enough until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything. White Noise is considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of themes of…mehr
Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is the story of Jack and Babette and their children from their six or so various marriages. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading from the tabloids to a group of elderly shut-ins. They are happy enough until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything. White Noise is considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of themes of consumerism, family and divorce, and technology as a deadly threat have attracted the attention of literary scholars since its publication. This Viking Critical Library edition, prepared by scholar Mark Osteen, is the only edition of White Noise that contains the entire text along with an extensive critical apparatus, including a critical introduction, selected essays on the author, the work and its themes, reviews, a chronology of DeLillo's life and work, a list of discussion topics, and a selected bibliography.
Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including White Noise (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 1997, he published the bestselling Underworld, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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White NoiseIntroduction Chronology I. White Noise: The Text II. Contexts ANTHONY DECURTIS, from Matters of Fact and Fiction ADAM BEGLEY, from Don DeLillo: The Art of Fiction CARYN JAMES, "'I Never Set Out to Write an Apocalyptic Novel'" DON DELILLO, from Americana DON DELILLO, from End Zone DON DELILLO, from Players DON DELILLO, Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson and the Millennium Newsweek, Stories on the toxic leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India III. Reviews SOL YURICK, Fleeing Death in a World of Hyper-Babble ALBERT MOBILIO, Death by Inches DIANE JOHNSON, Conspirators PICO IYER, A Connoisseur of Fear IV. Critical Essays TOM LECLAIR, Closing the Loop: White Noise FRANK LENTRICCHIA, Don DeLillo's Primal Scenes JOHN FROW, The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise JOHN N. DUVALL, The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Meditation in DeLillo's White Noise CORNEL BONCA, Don DeLillo's White Noise: The Natural Language of the Species ARTHUR M. SALTZMAN, The Figure in the Static: White Noise PAUL MALTBY, The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo Topics for Discussion and Papers Selected Bibliography
White NoiseIntroduction Chronology I. White Noise: The Text II. Contexts ANTHONY DECURTIS, from Matters of Fact and Fiction ADAM BEGLEY, from Don DeLillo: The Art of Fiction CARYN JAMES, "'I Never Set Out to Write an Apocalyptic Novel'" DON DELILLO, from Americana DON DELILLO, from End Zone DON DELILLO, from Players DON DELILLO, Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson and the Millennium Newsweek, Stories on the toxic leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India III. Reviews SOL YURICK, Fleeing Death in a World of Hyper-Babble ALBERT MOBILIO, Death by Inches DIANE JOHNSON, Conspirators PICO IYER, A Connoisseur of Fear IV. Critical Essays TOM LECLAIR, Closing the Loop: White Noise FRANK LENTRICCHIA, Don DeLillo's Primal Scenes JOHN FROW, The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise JOHN N. DUVALL, The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Meditation in DeLillo's White Noise CORNEL BONCA, Don DeLillo's White Noise: The Natural Language of the Species ARTHUR M. SALTZMAN, The Figure in the Static: White Noise PAUL MALTBY, The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo Topics for Discussion and Papers Selected Bibliography
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