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Contemporary Literature (2012) - The Lady Vanishes: Don DeLillo's Point Omega

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Cowart focuses on cinematic ekphrasis in Don DeLillo's Point Omega, the second on the perennially vexed question of just how an artist can, without didacticism, incorporate political perceptions into work that they might render tendentious. Ultimately, he argues for a kind of astute ascesis in DeLillo's engagement with political themes. Though he foregrounds the spiritual crisis of an apologist for the Second Gulf War, DeLillo deflects problems of immediate political legitimacy toward larger, less topical questions of a civilization's decline. DeLillo perpends the prospect of an omega point for the American empire.