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IN FLIGHT: Don DeLillo’s The Silence

November 20, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

Don DeLillo The SIlence

by HENRY VEGGIAN
As hard as it may be to do, try to ignore the warning. That’s what I tell myself, but it’s still there, on the inside flap of the dust jacket. It has the tone of a press release, but it sounds more like the car horn you hear before the crash. “Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19.”

My first reaction was an eye roll. Here we go again, I thought, the old story about DeLillo the prophet/artist who foresaw 9-11, who foresaw the Great Recession, who gives us a language in advance of the event. My Italian brain plucked a phrase from another life —“la vecchia lagna”—the boring old complaint. [Read more…] about IN FLIGHT: Don DeLillo’s The Silence

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ABOUT HENRY VEGGIAN
Henry Veggian teaches in the Department of English at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Understanding Don DeLillo (2014).

Revealing an English Schoolmaster’s Piers Plowman

January 15, 2020 - Aaron T. Pratt

Most of the books that came to The University of Texas at Austin as part of the John Henry Wrenn Library didn’t look like old books when they arrived in 1918 and still don’t look old now—not as old, at least, as the publication dates of the printed pages inside would suggest. [Read more…] about Revealing an English Schoolmaster’s Piers Plowman

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Treatment of A Brief and General Account of the First Part of the Life of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield

September 2, 2016 - Kimberly Kwan

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Treatment of A Brief and General Account of the First Part of the Life of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield (1740) by George Whitefield was recently completed [Read more…] about Treatment of A Brief and General Account of the First Part of the Life of the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield

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