Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts

Catherine Gander is Associate Professor of American Literature at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her books include Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection (2013; Irish Association for American Studies biennial book prize winner), The Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts (2023), Mixed Messages: American Correspondences in Visual and Verbal Practices (2016; co-edited with Sarah Garland), Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser (2026; co-edited with Stefania Heim), and the poetry sequence Matches (2024).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction. Ways of Seeing / Don DeLillo and the Arts - Catherine GanderPart I: DeLillo and Aesthetics: Art as ExperienceA Tender Experience: Aesthetics of Death in DeLillo’s Fiction - Peter BoxallThe Art of Feeling - Alexandra Kingston-ReeseThe Art of War - Margaret ScanlanThe Art Encounter - Jonathan GibbsPart II: Visual Arts and CulturesRadiance and Repetition: DeLillo’s Icons - Sarah GarlandL’objet trouvé and the Pressure of History: DeLillo’s Aesthetic of Found Things and the 1970s - Tim JelfsDeLillo’s Photo Opportunity - Monika GehlawatWhere Have All the Writers Gone? Art and Vision in DeLillo’s Later Works - Laura BarrettDeLillo’s Landscapes - Elise MartucciDeLillo in Colour - Brian JarvisPart III: Literary ArtsThe Art of Editing - Tim GroenlandPoetry - Catherine GanderEkphrasis - Graley HerrenStaged Events: Don DeLillo, The Short Story, Intellectuals and The Arts - Henry VeggianJoycean DeLillo - Kiron WardDeLilloesque: DeLillo’s Cultural Impact - Andrew HoberekPart IV: Film, Screens, and TechnologyDeLillo and the Cinematic Long Take - David HeringThematic Equivalence and Ontological Ambivalence: Film Adaptations of the Works of Don DeLillo - Cristina GarrigósVideo Art and the Elasticity of Duration - Catherine MorleyScreen, Image and the Technological Sublime - Joseph M. ConteScreening Fundamentalism, Fanaticism and Terrorism in DeLillo’s Post-9/11 Fiction - Liliana M. NaydanThe Digital Physics of Reading DeLillo - Licheng XiePart V: Embodied Arts: Performance and SpectaclePhones, Words and Silences: On Performance and Performativity in DeLillo’s Narrators - Jesse KavadloDeLillo Across Page and Stage - Rebecca ReyTransforming the Spectacle in DeLillo’s Late Novels - Pavlina RadiaDeLillo’s Performances of Abjection - Kelsie DonnellyPart VI: Place, Site, SpaceDeLillo and Land Art - Katie da Cunha LewinDeLillo and the Gallery - David CoughlanTime and Loss: DeLillo and the Imagination of Archaeology - David CowartGoing Up in the World: Architecture in the Works of Don DeLillo - Margaret Robson'Bird Lives': The High Art of Graffiti in Don DeLillo - Michael NaasNotes on ContributorsIndex

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.