![]() ![]() ![]() While most mainstream fiction of the Reagan era is marked by regionalisms and privatisms that bespeak an alarming poverty of imagination, DeLillo dares to project a world in its full political complexity and to grapple with ideas that might make some sense of events observed in the public sphere. One of the most challenging qualities that Frank Lentricchia finds in Don DeLillo is that he “offers us no myth of political virginity preserved, no ‘individuals’ who are not expressions of–and responses to–specific historical processes” (“Introducing” 241). Paranoias and paradigms: Who’s afraid of Don DeLillo? ![]() Rutgers are only two things in the world. ![]()
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