Don DeLillo In Context

This book uses a variety of frameworks to provide readers with ways into understanding Don DeLillo's prodigious body of work.

Don DeLillo In Context benefits scholars and students interested in intersections between his literature and its contexts. Essays examine how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding his body of work.Don DeLillo is one of the most important novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Yet despite DeLillo's prolific output and scholarly recognition, much of the attention has gone to his works individually, rather than collectively or thematically. This volume provides separate entries into the wide variety and categories of contexts that surround and help illuminate DeLillo's writings. Don DeLillo in Context examines how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding DeLillo's prodigious body of work.