Nel's English 660: Don DeLillo (Fall 2001).
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Great Jones Street explores the nature of fame and how it doesn’t exist for its own sake. Bucky is (or was) a passionate musician. Although he initially enjoyed his power over large crowds, his fame made him so powerful that he lost control over it.
Essays and criticism on Don DeLillo, including the works Americana, End Zone, Great Jones Street, Ratner’s Star, The Names, White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, The Body Artist, Cosmopolis.
DeLillo delved into deeper questions of death, celebrity, cults, and consumerism in End Zone (1972), about a football player, and Great Jones Street (1973), about a reclusive rock star. His next series of books -- Ratner's Star (1976), Players (1977), Running Dog (1978), and Amazons (1980, written under the pen name Cleo Birdwell) -- all deal with highly specific fictional worlds.
Don DeLillo's novels since 1985 have turned their attention to the paradoxes and contradictions of postmodern culture. DeLillo's is the terrain of shopping malls and supermarkets, the temples of the new consumerist creed, of a market organized entirely around consumer demand, of the detritus and waste of consumerism produced by that insatiable demand.
DeLillo’s most recent novel Point Omega (2010) is a conceptual narrative blending science and poetry. Much like Point Omega, DeLillo’s impressive body of work features genre-bending narratives touching science fiction, political and cultural critique, and apocalyptic ideas.The writer has been loosely associated with literary virtuosos such as Phillip Roth, Paul Auster or Cormac McCarthy.
Parody, Heteroglossia, and Chronotope in Don DeLillo's Great Jones Street StyleSummer): 206-16. ——— 2005b Spinozan Judaism New Harvest: Jewish Writing in St Pynchon's Transition from Ethos.