唐﹒德里羅是美國著名作家,至今已出版了16部長(zhǎng)篇小說,獲獎(jiǎng)無數(shù),其中包括:1985年《白噪音》獲得美國國家圖書獎(jiǎng),1992年《毛二》獲得筆會(huì)/?思{獎(jiǎng),1999年獲得耶路撒冷獎(jiǎng),2010年獲得筆會(huì)/索爾?貝婁美國小說成就獎(jiǎng),2013年獲得首屆國會(huì)圖書館美國小說獎(jiǎng)。本書從新歷史主義的視角探討了德里羅文本的歷史性、文本性及其多視角、敘事的非連續(xù)性、黑色幽默和互文性的敘事策略,指出德里羅是個(gè)具有社會(huì)責(zé)任感、有道德和強(qiáng)烈歷史意識(shí)的作家?梢哉J(rèn)為,他是個(gè)美國后現(xiàn)代編年史家。他的小說尖銳地批評(píng)了美國后現(xiàn)代文化。
Introduction
Ⅰ. DeLiHo's Life and Career
Ⅱ. Research Reviews on DeLillo in the United States and China
Ⅲ. Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Book
1. New Historicism and the Key Representatives
2. The Structure and Contents of the Book
Chapter One The Historicity of Dekillo's Texts
Ⅰ. Context: The Postmodern Condition 131
1. Daniel Bell's Theory of the Post-Industrial Society
2. Jean-Franqois Lyotard's Analysis of the Postmodern Condition
3. Jean Baudrillard's Idea of Consumer Society
4. Fredric Jameson's Viewpoint on Late Capitalism
Ⅱ. The Chronicler of America: Historicizing the Present
1. Libra." The Origin of American Postmodern Condition
2. Falling Man: A “Brave New Chronicler of the Age of Terror”
Chapter Two The Textuality of History: Dekillo's Chronicle of Postmodern America
Ⅰ. White Noise
1. "Death Is in the Air"
2. "As Long as the Supermarket Did Not Slip"
Ⅱ. Mao Ⅱ
1. "When the Old God Leaves the World"
2. "Nothing Happens Until It's Consumed"
3. "Novelists and Terrorists Are Playing a Zero-Sum Game"
Ⅲ. Underworld
1. "The Shot Heard Round the World"
2. "We're All Gonna Die"
3. "Waste Is the Secret History"
4 "Everything Is Connected in the End"
Chapter Three Narrative Strategies in Dekillo's Fictional Texts
Ⅰ. Multiple Points of View
Ⅱ. Discontinuity in Narration
Ⅲ. Black Humor
Ⅳ. Intertextuality
1. Allusion
2. Adaptation
3. Pastiche
4. Historiographic Metafiction
Conclusion
Works Cited
Acknowledgments