- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom

Closing the loop: White noise / Tom Leclair -- The last things before the last: notes on White noise / John Frow -- "Adolf, we hardly knew you" / Paul A. Cantor -- Tales of the electronic tribe / Frank Lentricchia -- Baudrillard, DeLillo's White noise, and the end of heroic narrative / Leonard Wilcox -- Don DeLillo: rendering the words of the tribe / Arnold Weinstein -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise / Mark Conroy -- The (super)marketplace of images: television as unmediated mediation in DeLillo's White noise / John N. Duvall -- The figure in the static: White noise / Arthur M. Salzman -- The romantic metaphysics of Don DeLillo / Paul Maltby.