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The Environmental Unconscious in the Fiction of Don DeLillo
By Elise Martucci
Copyright 2007
204 Pages
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Routledge
202 Pages
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Routledge
202 Pages
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Routledge
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This book presents an ecocritical reading of DeLillo’s novels in an attempt to mediate between the seemingly incompatible influences of postmodernism and environmentalism. Martucci argues that although DeLillo is responding to and engaging with a postmodern culture of simulacra and simulation, his novels do not reflect a postmodernist theory of the "end of nature." Rather, his fiction... Read more
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: DeLillo, Postmodernism, and the Nature of Nature
Chapter Two: How Real the Landscape Truly Was: Reading Americana as a Pastoral Critique
Chapter Three: The Names: Discovering the Deeper Textures
Chapter Four: White Noise: A Level of Experience to which We Will Gradually Adjust
Chapter Five: Taking Meaning out into the Streets: The Significance of Place in Underworld
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Elise Martucci is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Westchester Community College, US.
