Tendering the Impossible: The Work of Irony in the Late Novels of Don DeLillo

American Allegorists and Mourning 98......Page 2 Works Consulted 214......Page 3 Figure 1. Pieter Bruegel. The Triumph of Death......Page 4 Abstract......Page 5 I offer my gratitude also to friends and colleagues, past and present, in the English Programme, and to those within the Programme responsible for enabling for me the years of teaching I have enjoyed. I am indebted also to the University of Canterbury for the awarding of a Doctoral Scholarship.......Page 6 (ii) Irony and Allegory......Page 11 (iv) Tenderness......Page 18 (iv) The Irony of Invention......Page 48 (ii) “A Complex Sensation”......Page 101 (iii) Responsible Living......Page 103 (v) The Corrections......Page 113 (iii) Shoot and Repeat......Page 125 (ii) Everything Connects......Page 150 Part Two: Language and Mourning......Page 181