by Graley Herren (Author), Graley Herren (Author)
Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo is the first book devoted to this dimension of DeLillo's art. It is also the first book to identify and analyze a signature DeLillo motif: the embedded author. In multiple novels, short stories, and plays, DeLillo inserts a character subtly implied as the creator of the very narrative we are reading or watching. Spanning his entire career but focusing primarily on his work from Underworld (1997) to Zero K (2016), The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo breaks important new ground in DeLillo studies.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 27 Jun 2019
ISBN 10: 1501345052
ISBN 13: 9781501345050
Book Overview: Examines Don DeLillo's career-long meditation on art, artists, and spectators.