DON DELILLO
Scope|Circulating
Books|Critical Sources|Periodicals,
Journals, & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: Don DeLillo’s first novel Americana was published in 1971 and immediately established him as writer of considerable merit. His works are non-traditional in structure and his use of language features irony and satire. In general, the theme of his novels is the chaos of modern society. White Noise and Libra were bestsellers.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
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Books of Don DeLillo’s works are listed in our on-line catalog under
“DeLillo, Don,” and under individual titles.
Books written by and about Don DeLillo have the call number(s)
PS 3554.E4425 |
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
Civello, Paul. American
Literary Naturalism and Its Twentieth-Century
Transformations: Frank Norris, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
DeLillo, Don. White
Noise: Text and Criticism. New York: Penguin Books, 1998.
Keesey, Douglas. Don DeLillo. New York: Twayne, 1993.
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. These resources provide an overview or summary of the topic.
The following titles are appropriate to this topic:
PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction
PR 881.C69 2001 Contemporary Novelists
PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography
Vol. 6 American Novelists
Since World War II
PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th-Century Writers
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a
list of full text journals available through our
databases in:
WEB SITES
The Don De Lillo Society
http://www.ksu.edu/english/nelp/delillo/
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Updated
02/08/2007
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