{"product_id":"don-delillo-david-cowart-9780820325811","title":"Don Delillo: The Physics of Language, REV. Ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo, author of twelve novels and winner of the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award, the William Dean Howells Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize, has begun to rival Thomas Pynchon as the definitive postmodern novelist. Always thought-provoking and occasionally controversial, DeLillo has become the voice of the bimillennial moment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharting DeLillo's emergence as a contemporary novelist of major stature, David Cowart discusses each of DeLillo's twelve novels, including his most recent work, \u003ci\u003eThe Body Artist\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). Rejecting the idea that DeLillo lacks affinities across the cultural spectrum, Cowart argues that DeLillo's work invites comparison with that of wide range of antecedents, including Dunbar, Whitman, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Hemingway, Joyce, Rilke, and Eliot. At the same time, Cowart explores the ways in which DeLillo's art anticipates, parallels, and contests ideas that have become the common currency of poststructuralist theory. The major site of DeLillo's engagement with postmodernism, Cowart argues, is language, which DeLillo represents as more mysterious--numinous even--than current theory allows. For DeLillo, language remains what Cowart calls \"the ground of all making.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon DeLillo: The Physics of Language\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative investigation of the most compelling issues of contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Cowart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820325813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820325811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 6.76w x 0.63d","brand":"David Cowart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926504177919,"sku":"9780820325811","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_78b2013c-bf35-4134-ba6f-e82103bdd5a3.jpg?v=1681083444","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/don-delillo-david-cowart-9780820325811","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}