The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts

The first book to comprehensively address Don DeLillo’s deep and lasting engagement with the arts across the entirety of his writing career * Provides the first comprehensive study of Don DeLillo’s profound engagement with the visual, performing and plastic arts throughout his 50+ years career as a writer __The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts__ is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Don DeLillo’s career-long engagements with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts. Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international contributors, including established voices in DeLillo criticism and emerging experts, the volume forges new paths in the study of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a section dedicated to experiential and political aesthetics in DeLillo’s work, the Companion offers new perspectives on the forms and functions of the arts across DeLillo’s entire oeuvre—from his first novel Americana, through his plays, essays, short stories, to his latest novel, __The Silence__. This exciting Companion is a genuine intervention in DeLillo scholarship by offering an interdisciplinary examination of his work across forms, media, method, and theory. Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction. Ways of Seeing / Don DeLillo and the Arts Part I: DeLillo and Aesthetics: Art as Experience 1. A Tender Experience: Aesthetics of Death in DeLillo’s Fiction 2. The Art of Feeling 3. The Art of War 4. The Art Encounter Part II: Visual Arts and Cultures 5. Radiance and Repetition: DeLillo’s Icons 6. L’objet trouvé and the Pressure of History: DeLillo’s Aesthetic of Found Things and the 1970s 7. DeLillo’s Photo Opportunity 8. Where Have All the Writers Gone? Art and Vision in DeLillo’s Later Works 9. DeLillo’s Landscapes 10. DeLillo in Colour Part III: Literary Arts 11. The Art of Editing 12. Poetry 13. Ekphrasis 14. Staged Events: Don DeLillo, the Short Story, Intellectuals and the Arts 15. Joycean DeLillo 16. DeLilloesque: DeLillo’s Cultural Impact Part IV: Film, Screens and Technology 17. DeLillo and the Cinematic Long Take 18. Thematic Equivalence and Ontological Ambivalence: Film Adaptations of the Works of Don DeLillo 19. Video Art and the Elasticity of Duration 20. Screen, Image and the Technological Sublime 21. Screening Fundamentalism, Fanaticism and Terrorism in DeLillo’s Post-9/11 Fiction 22. The Digital Physics of Reading DeLillo Part V: Embodied Arts: Performance and Spectacle 23. Phones, Words and Silences: On Performance and Performativity in DeLillo’s Narrators 24. DeLillo Across Page and Stage 25. Transforming the Spectacle in DeLillo’s Late Novels 26. DeLillo’s Performances of Abjection Part VI: Place, Site, Space 27. DeLillo and Land Art 28. DeLillo and the Gallery 29. Time and Loss: DeLillo and the Imagination of Archaeology 30. Going Up in the World: Architecture in the Works of Don DeLillo 31. ‘Bird Lives’: The High Art of Graffiti in Don DeLillo Notes on Contributors Index h4The first book to comprehensively address Don DeLillo’s deep and lasting engagement with the arts across the entirety of his writing career/h4ulliProvides the first comprehensive study of Don DeLillo’s profound engagement with the visual, performing and plastic arts throughout his 50 years career as a writer/liliOffers original, interdisciplinary readings of DeLillo’s body of work /liliConsiders the breadth of DeLillo’s work, including novels, short stories, plays, and essays/liliBreaks new ground in DeLillo scholarship through analysis of lesser-known works and archival materials/li/ulpiThe Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts/i is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of Don DeLillo’s career-long engagements with the visual, literary, digital and televisual, performing, filmic, and spatial arts. Gathering original essays from a diverse range of international contributors, including established voices in DeLillo criticism and emerging experts, the volume forges new paths in the study of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a section dedicated to experiential and political aesthetics in DeLillo’s work, the Companion offers new perspectives on the forms and functions of the arts across DeLillo’s entire oeuvre—from his first novel Americana, through his plays, essays, short stories, to his latest novel, iThe Silence/i. This exciting Companion is a genuine intervention in DeLillo scholarship by offering an interdisciplinary examination of his work across forms, media, method, and theory./p