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Autism and Representation

Publisher: Routledge (2008)

Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. Though a great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, neither traditional humanities disciplines nor the new field of Disability Studies has had anything significant to say about it. This volume, the first scholarly book on autism and the humanities, brings scholars from several disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that autism has been represented in novels, poems, autobiographies, films and clinical discourses; it also explores the connections and demarcations between autistic and “neurotypical” creativity. Using an empathetic scholarship that unites professional rigor with experiential knowledge derived from the contributors’ lives with or as autistic people, the essays address such questions as: In what novel forms does autistic creativity appear, and what unusual strengths does it possess? How do autistic representations—whether by or about autistic people—revise conventional ideas of cognition, creativity, language, (dis)ability and sociability? This timely and important collection breaks new ground in literary and film criticism, aesthetics, psychology and Disability Studies. It will surely appeal to anyone interested in autism and related disabilities, as well as to literary scholars, rhetoricians and film critics.

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American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (June 2000)

From the reviews:

"Mark Osteen's ... book offers an excellent overview of Don DeLillo's novelistic career and deserves a careful reading by anyone interested in DeLillo." - Theron Britt, Modern Fiction Studies

"Reading DeLillo as both cultural critic and literary stylist, American Magic and Dread analyzes a novelist seeking an art of resistance and beauty. Like the subject of his book, Osteen shows us how literature's magic can fortify us, albeit only partially, against the social forces in which we are enmeshed." - Philip Nel, Studies in the Novel

"There is much in Osteen's reading of DeLillo's work from Americana to Underworld that is to be admired ... [An] interest in representation and resistance is sustained throughout Osteen's readings, often ingeniously so..." - Thomas Carmichael, Contemporary Literature

Don DeLillo’s America

The Don DeLillo Society

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The New Economic Criticism

Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 5, 1999)

Praise for The New Economic Criticism:

"It's a wonderful collection, and the introduction puts the whole matter firmly, irrevocably on the agenda for literary and cultural studies. Brava." - Deidre McCloskey, University of Iowa

"Finally-some evidence that it may be possible to get beyond literary critics playing with economic terminology as though it was a forbidden box of matches and economists congratulating themselves that they can be autodidacts in rhetoric just as easily as they find virtual markets in the souls of medieval serfs. In this volume economics meets cultural studies, and both sides actually listen to one another." - Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame

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The Economy of Ulysses: Making Both Ends Meet

Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd) (May 1995)

**Winner of Donald Murphy Prize for Best First Book in Irish Studies, 1995

Praise for The Economy of Ulysses:

"It is hard to think of anything to do with economic questions that has been left out of ... this brimming, bounteous book ... A notable example is his subtle and powerful reading of 'Cyclops' ... The insights of this chapter are carried forward into the brilliant discussions of the dynamics of cliche, fraudulence, and forgery in 'Eumaeus.'" - Steven Conner, James Joyce Broadsheet

"Time and again, Osteen takes material that seems to have been exhausted in terms of further interpretation and significantly adds to one's understanding of the work's complexity." - Michael Patrick Gillespie, James Joyce Quarterly

"Osteen's arguably magisterial study of the economies of Ulysses both sheds new light on the problem of narrative and narration in Joyce's text and redefines ... the critical tradition surrounding it." - Gregory Castle, English Literature in Transition

"Osteen's grandly architectural approach to Joycean economics is powerfully complemented by a close reading of the text, and this combination assures that his book will be an indisputable starting point for anyone working with the rich systems of exchange, reciprocity and mutually constitutive realities in Joyce." - Garry Leonard, James Joyce Literary Supplement