The Edinburgh Companion to Don Delillo and the Arts - (Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities) by Catherine Gander (Hardcover)

About the Book

The first book to comprehensively address Don DeLillo's deep and lasting engagement with the arts across the entirety of his writing career

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

A pioneering collection of international scholarship on Don DeLillo's engagement 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, this 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, and short stories, to his latest novel, The Silence. This exciting Companion is a genuine intervention in DeLillo scholarship, offering an interdisciplinary examination of his work across forms, media, and methods. Catherine Gander is Associate Professor of American Literature at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is author of several journal articles and chapters on Don DeLillo, American poetry and the interarts. Her publications include Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection (EUP 2013) and Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (with Sarah Garland, 2016).

Review Quotes

This capacious volume offers a treasure trove of insights and approaches. Spanning DeLillo's entire oeuvre and featuring contributions from many distinguished scholars, the essays address the myriad ways that his works encounter and incorporate a wide range of art forms. It is sure to be an enormously valuable resource not only for DeLillo scholars, but for all readers interested in cross-artistic relationships and interdisciplinary criticism.--Mark Osteen, Loyola University Maryland

About the Author

Catherine Gander is Associate Professor of American Literature at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is author of several journal articles and chapters on Don DeLillo, American poetry and the interarts. She is the author of Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection (EUP, 2013; winner of the IAAS book award) and Extending the Document: Contemporary Transmedial Poetics (forthcoming). She is co-editor and contributor to Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (2016) as well as editor of special journal issues on Muriel Rukeyser and on the American Imagetext. She is the Chair (2019-) of the Irish Association for American Studies (IAAS).