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Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on the lead writer for the Age of the Image. Whilst the author is sometimes characterised and even caricatured as a 'novelist of ideas', this study makes a case for DeLillo as a 'body artist' with a particular fascination for the varieties of visual experience. DeLillo's work dramatizes diverse ways of seeing: the eye of the artist; the scientific stare; the consumer leer; the plagiarised perception of the tourist; the athlete's field of sight; and the seer's sacred vision. Framed by the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty and the dialectical optic of Walter Benjamin, a series of close readings consider the visuality of writing itself, light and colour, the screen cultures of cinema, television and computer and the ekphrastic depiction of painting and photography.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Jarvis, Brian
- ISBN: 9781032345246
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 272
- Publication Year: 2026
Language:
English