Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index
Notes
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