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In recognition of its significance as a perceptive and prescient assessment of the postmodern condition, there exists a substantial corpus of critical writing about Don DeLillo and White Noise (1985). Notably there is Tom Le Clair’s In The Loop: The Systems Novel (1987) and Frank Lentricchia’s two collections of essays, Introducing Don DeLillo (1991) and New Essays on White Noise (1991). Steffen Hantke has contributed Conspiracy and Paranoia in Contemporary American Fiction: The Novels of Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy (1994) to the field of Delillo studies, whilst David Cowart, Mark Osteen, Peter Boxall, Jesse Kavadlo and Joseph Dewey, to name but five, have written monographs examining the ‘core’ DeLillo novels and plays. Further to this, Tim Engles and John N. Duvall have edited Approaches to teaching Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Leonard Orr has contributed a comprehensive study of White Noise as part of the Continuum Contemporaries series.
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Colebrook, M. (2014). Whole Families Paranoid at Night: Don DeLillo’s White Noise. In: Allen, N., Simmons, D. (eds) Reassessing the Twentieth-Century Canon. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137366016_17
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