Edinburgh Companion to Don DeLillo and the Arts

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).

• 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.