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Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines
all the author's work published in the 21st century: The Body
Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K, the plays
Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short stories in
The Angel Esmeralda. What topic doesn't DeLillo tackle?
Cyber-capital and currency markets, ontology and intelligence,
global warming and cryogenics, Don DeLillo continues to ponder the
significance of present cultural currents and to anticipate the
waves of the future. Performance art and ethics, drama and
euthanasia, space studies and the constrictions of time, DeLillo
perspicaciously reads our culture, giving voice to the rhythms of
our vernacular and diction. Rich and resonant, his work is so
multifaceted in its attention that it accommodates a wide variety
of critical approaches while its fine and filigreed prose commends
him to a poetic appreciation as well. Don DeLillo after the
Millennium brings together an international cast of scholars who
examine DeLillo's work from many critical perspectives, exploring
the astonishing output of an author who continues to tell our
stories and show us ourselves.
Don DeLillo after the Millennium: Currents and Currencies examines
all the author's work published in the 21st century: The Body
Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and Zero K, the plays
Love-Lies-Bleeding and The Word for Snow, and the short stories in
The Angel Esmeralda. What topic doesn't DeLillo tackle?
Cyber-capital and currency markets, ontology and intelligence,
global warming and cryogenics, Don DeLillo continues to ponder the
significance of present cultural currents and to anticipate the
waves of the future. Performance art and ethics, drama and
euthanasia, space studies and the constrictions of time, DeLillo
perspicaciously reads our culture, giving voice to the rhythms of
our vernacular and diction. Rich and resonant, his work is so
multifaceted in its attention that it accommodates a wide variety
of critical approaches while its fine and filigreed prose commends
him to a poetic appreciation as well. Don DeLillo After the
Millennium brings together an international cast of scholars who
examine DeLillo's work from many critical perspectives, exploring
the astonishing output of an author who continues to tell our
stories and show us ourselves.
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