Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Editor's Note vii --Introduction 1 -- Harold Bloom --Closing the Loop: White Noise 5 -- Tom LeClair --The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise 35 -- John Frow --"Adolf, We Hardly Knew You" 51 -- Paul A. Cantor --Tales of the Electronic Tribe 73 -- Frank Lentricchia --Baudrillard, DeLillo's White Noise, and the End of Heroic Narrative 97 -- Leonard Wilcox --Don DeLillo: Rendering the Words of the Tribe 117 -- Arnold Weinstein --From Tombstone to Tabloid: Authority Figured in White Noise 153 -- Mark Conroy --The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise 169 -- John N. Duvall --The Figure in the Static: White Noise 195 -- Arthur M. Saltzman --The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo 213 -- Paul Maltby --Chronology 231 --Contributors 233 --Bibliography 235 --Acknowledgments 239 --Index 241.