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Issue 2.3 Previous Issues

DeLillo, Aesthetics, The Cold Iraq War

Martin Paul Eve May 13, 2013 2 Comments 21st century literature 9/11 bi-directionality Cold War Contemporary American Literature Cosmopolis Don DeLillo Douglas Gordon Falling Man installation Iraq War Point Omega postmodernist aesthetics rogue state The Body Artist Thomas Pynchon Toni Morrison Twenty-Four Hour Psycho Underworld warfare White Noise

As one of the most important American writers of the late-twentieth century – alongside Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon in particular – Don DeLillo is a notable target of…

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Issue 1.3 Previous Issues

Still Here: Post-Millennial Metafiction and Crypto-Didacticism

Martin Paul Eve August 1, 2012 3 Comments 2666 American literature Ciudad Juarez crypto-didacticism David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo E Unibus Pluram ethics Falling Man fiction Gravity's Rainbow historiographic metafiction Inherent Vice Linda Hutcheon literary criticism Mason & Dixon Patricia Waugh Point Omega post-postmodernism postmodernism Ratner's Star Roberto Bolano Running Dog simulacrum simulation The Body Artist the New Sincerity The Pale King Thomas Pynchon Underworld White Noise

In 1993, David Foster Wallace published an essay piece entitled “E Unibus Pluram” in which he outlined his belief that fiction should move away from the ‘critical and destructive’ postmodern irony that he saw as…

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