New Essays on White Noise

The American Novel

by Frank Lentricchia (Editor)

In the introduction to this volume, Frank Lentricchia provides an overview of the critical reception of the novel and examines in its context other works by Don DeLillo. The other essays in the volume discuss DeLillo's view of family and divorce, Hitler's role in the 20th century, technology as a mortal threat, and postmodern America. This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach DeLillo's important contemporary work.

Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Literary Criticism

128 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 1991

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a really good accompaniment to the novel.

[Маx Nestelieiev · Rating 4 out of 5]

склалося враження, що цитат більше, аніж аналізу, але кілька цікавих думок виловив - і вже добре

[m · Rating 3 out of 5]

The five essays (43,000 words) comprising this short book (two of which are by Lentricchia himself), are very good, insightful, well worth reading.

I read White Noise many years ago concluding that it was merely a funny satire of academia. But with the advent of Covid-19 many scenes & lines from the novel kept coming to mind. The book's best lines are rehashed and examined in detail in this collection's five essays, producing a pleasure pari passu to reading the novel itself.