"White Noise" Revisited: New Perspectives on American Fiction, Cambridge, Issue 11 (English Edition)

Author: Frank Lentricchia
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Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Features: White Noise tells the story of a professor who studies Hitler and his family, an innovative work by Don DeLillo that has received extensive criticism and praise. In the introduction to this book, Frank Lentricchia outlines the criticism of the novel while comparing it with Don DeLillo's other works. Other discussions in the book explore DeLillo's views on family, his perspective on divorce, the role of Hitler in the 20th century, technology as a moral threat, and postmodern America. This book provides a highly constructive critical approach to studying DeLillo's important contemporary works.