Closing the Loop: Tom LeClair
Tom LeClair's Closing the Loop provides a great summary of Don DeLillo's work White Noise. In the beginning LeClair explains his very fitting title, "closing the loop." He talks about DeLillo's traveling and how it lends to the creative aspects of the novel. LeClair also gives background on DeLillo and how he started writing White Noise after his return in 1982. He talks about how "White Noise is about "closing the loop"-- personal and mass dying, the "circle slowly closing" (241) of fear producing its object..." (387-388). Later in Leclairs work, he goes into summarizing White Noise and how it ties into the American culture of its time.
I liked reading this article because it grabbed my attention from the beginning. It also does a great job of offering some other insights to the novel that I would have otherwise simply looked over.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Penguin, 1998. Print.
Tom LeClair did do a great job summarizing White Noise and it was very insightful. I also really liked this article and found it super helpful! I got a better understanding of the book and it helped me understand things that I didn't before.
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