Monthly Archives: January 2014

Bill Millard Department of English Rutgers University millard@zodiac.rutgers.edu   “There are only two things in the world. Things that are true. And things that are truer than true.”   –Weird Beard (Russell Lee Moore, a.k.a. Russ Knight), KLIF disk jockey in Libra   I. Paranoias and paradigms: Who’s afraid of Don DeLillo?   One of […]

Stephen Bernstein Department of English University of Michigan – Flint bernstein_s@crob.flint.umich.edu   Aside from their humor, Don DeLillo’s novels are noted almost as frequently for their brilliant terror, manifested as a frisson at the core of contemporary existence. Frank Lentricchia comments on DeLillo’s “yoking together terror and wild humor as the essential tone of contemporary […]

Peter Baker Department of English Towson State University e7e4bak@toe.towson.edu   Through the issues it raises, the kind of writing style it employs, and coming as it does in a series of other novels by Don DeLillo, Mao II demands to be treated seriously in the context of postmodern work and theory. Rather than spend time […]

Glen Scott Allen Department of English Towson State University e7e4all@toe.towson.edu   “Terror: from the Latin terrere, to frighten; intense fear; the quality of causing dread; terribleness; alarm, consternation, apprehension, dread, fear, fright.”   —Webster’s New Twentieth Century Dictionary   “Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner […]

John Unsworth Department of English University of Virginia jmu2m@virginia.edu   This journal does not usually run editor’s introductions, but with this issue it enters a new phase of its existence, and that new phase deserves some comment. For more than three years, Postmodern Culture has been publishing peer-reviewed critical and creative work in a text-only […]