The Concept of Authorship

doi:10.1017/9781009025676.037

Chapter 29 - The Concept of Authorship

Self/Referentiality

from Part VII - Writing and Writers

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022

Marjorie Worthington

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Jesse Kavadlo

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Jesse Kavadlo: Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri

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Summary

DeLillo has often been portrayed as a “reclusive author.” Even though this characterization of the man himself is not quite accurate, DeLillo’s work is rife with images of artists as solitary geniuses who eschew the spotlight. On a structural level, that image is manifested as well in how DeLillo himself rejects the postmodernist trend toward self-reflexivity and metafictional authorial intrusions. Instead, DeLillo’s work evinces the artistry of a distant but still controlling godlike author-figure, whom his characters can sense but not see.

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Don Delillo authorship self-referentiality language postmodernism terrorisim White Noise Mao II End Zone Libra The Names Point Omega

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Information: Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 283 - 290

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025676.037 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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