| Physical description |
xix, 538 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking critical library. |
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Viking critical library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-538). |
| Contents |
I. White Noise: The Text -- II. Contexts. from Matters of Fact and Fiction / Anthony DeCurtis. from Don DeLillo: The Art of Fiction / Adam Begley. "'I Never Set Out to Write an Apocalyptic Novel'" / Caryn James. from Americana / Don DeLillo. from End Zone / Don DeLillo. from Players / Don DeLillo. Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson and the Millennium / Don DeLillo. Newsweek, Stories on the toxic leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India -- III. Reviews. Fleeing Death in a World of Hyper-Babble / Sol Yurick. Death by Inches / Albert Mobilio. Conspirators / Diane Johnson. A Connoisseur of Fear / Pico Iyer -- IV. Critical Essays. Closing the Loop: White Noise / Tom LeClair. Don DeLillo's Primal Scenes / Frank Lentricchia. The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise / John Frow. The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise / John N. Duvall. Don DeLillo's White Noise: The Natural Language of the Species / Cornel Bonca. |
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The Figure in the Static: White Noise / Arthur M. Saltzman. The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo / Paul Maltby. |
| Summary |
Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is the story of Jack and Babette and their children from their six or so various marriages. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading from the tabloids to a group of elderly shut-ins. They are happy enough until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything. |
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White Noise is considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of themes of consumerism, family and divorce, and technology as a deadly threat have attracted the attention of literary scholars since its publication. This Viking Critical Library edition, prepared by scholar Mark Osteen, is the only edition of White Noise that contains the entire text along with an extensive critical apparatus, including a critical introduction, selected essays on the author, the work and its themes, reviews, a chronology of DeLillo's life and work, a list of discussion topics, and a selected bibliography. |
| Other author |
Osteen, Mark.
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| Subject |
DeLillo, Don. White noise.
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Industrial accidents -- Middle West -- Fiction.
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College teachers -- Middle West -- Fiction.
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Stepfamilies -- Middle West -- Fiction.
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Death -- Fiction.
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Middle West -- Fiction.
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Humorous fiction. |
| ISBN |
0140274987 (paperback) |
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