Don DeLillo: Mao II, Underworld, Falling Man (Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction)

This book offers education practitioners insights that will enable them to improve their professional practices in relation to the conceptualisation, design, implementation, assessment and evaluation of approaches to e-learning. The authors pay attention to the perspectives of both teachers and learners when exploring key questions including: How do online technologies affect pedagogy? How can online technologies best support learning? Key Issues in e-Learning avoids simplistic conceptualisations of online teaching and learning. Instead, this text draws on a wide range empirical, conceptual and theoretical evidence and outlines practical approaches to improving practice and research. A collection of original, stimulating interpretations of key texts by Don DeLillo, designed for students and edited and written by leading scholars in the field. The book offers new perspectives on two of the most important pre-millennial novels by any American writer Mao II and Underworld and the first extended discussions of Falling Man , DeLillo's exploration of 9/11 and its aftermath. An American Studies approach to the texts brings together both established DeLillo scholars and other academics whose interdisciplinary methodologies drawn from history, ethnic studies, new economic criticism, women's studies, art history, and urban studies shed new light on DeLillo's work and demonstrate its wide-ranging significance in contemporary American culture. Don Delillo And The Dream Release / Stacey Olster -- Delphic Delillo: Mao 2 And Millennial Dread / David Cowart -- Mao 2 And The New World Order / Peter Knight -- Mao 2 And Mixed Media / Laura Barrett -- Underworld, Memory, And The Recycling Of Cold War Narrative / Thomas Hill Schaub -- Underworld And The Architecture Of Urban Space / David L. Pike -- Underworld, Ethnicity, And Found Object Art: Reason And Revelation / Josephine Gattuso Hendin -- Global Horizons In Falling Man / John Carlos Rowe -- Bodies In Rest And Motion In Falling Man / Linda S. Kauffman -- Witnessing Trauma: Falling Man And Performance Art / John N. Duvall. [edited By] Stacey Olster. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [178]-181) And Index. A wide-ranging study of the post-1990 fiction of one of America's most respected writers and cultural critics, this volume focuses on three of Don DeLillo's most recent novelsGÇö Mao II, Underworld, and Falling Man GÇöthat span pivotal moments in recent history: the end of the Cold War, the millennium, and 9/11. Consisting of original essays written by scholars whose interdisciplinary approachesGÇödrawn from art history and religious history, ethnic studies and urban studies, popular culture and political scienceGÇöshed new light on DeLillo's work, it investigates DeLillo's portrait of turn- Offering a comprehensive analysis of the post-1990 fiction of one of America's most respected writers and cultural critics, this title focuses on three of Don DeLillo's most recent novels - "Mao II", "Underworld", and "Falling Man" - that span pivotal moments in history: the end of the Cold War, the millennium, and 9/11. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the post-1990 fiction of one of America's most respected writers and cultural critics, this book focuses on three of Don DeLillo's most recent novels - "Mao II", "Underworld", and "Falling Man" - that span pivotal moments in history: the end of the Cold War, the millennium, and 9/11. A collection of essays on Delilo's three most important recent novels