1st Edition

Don DeLillo and the Visual

By Brian Jarvis Copyright 2026
246 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on the lead writer for the Age of the Image. Whilst the author is sometimes characterised and even caricatured as a ‘novelist of ideas’, this study makes a case for DeLillo as a ‘body artist’ with a... Read more

  1. Opening frames: DeLillo, the body artist, 2. Chromatography, 3. Screentime: at the movies, 4. Filmosophy, 5. From fictions of cinema to cinematic fiction, 6. Commercial TV, 7. Disaster TV, 8. Decoding computers, 9. The art gallery at the end of the universe, 10. Closing frames: sunset, Bibliography, Index

 

 

 

Biography

Brian Jarvis is a senior lecturer at Loughborough University. He has published widely on American literature and film.