Approaches to Teaching Delillo's White Noise

Tim Engles, associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, is coeditor with Hugh Ruppersburg of Critical Essays on Don Delillo. He has written on the works of Tim O'Brien, Chang-rae Lee, and Alice Walker. He is currently studying whiteness and cultural identity in contemporary American literature, film, and the visual arts. John N. Duvall is professor of English at Purdue University and the editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies. His books include Faulkner's Marginal Couple; The Identifying Fictions of Toni Morrison; Don DeLillo's Underworld; and, as editor, Productive Postmodernism and Faulkner and Postmodernism. He is currently studying the figurative use of blackness in Faulkner and other southern writers.

Every essay in this collection offers valuable insights for the classroom teacher. Taken together, they reconfirm that White Noise is a modern classic. --Mary Poovey, New York University