Timothy L. Parrish - From Hoover's FBI to Eisenstein's Unterwelt: DeLillo Directs the Postmodern Novel - Modern Fiction Studies 45:3: DeLillo's readers thus find themselves in a critical bind. On the one hand, they delight in the virtuosity of his multimedia mimicry--his ability to transmit a range of media forms through his narratives seriatim. That the very success of his narrative mimicry leads readers to worry that he is an iPublish PostPublish Postmpersonator co-opted by the narrative forms that he replays suggests how difficult it is for DeLillo to succeed in being both innovative and in control of his fiction. 2 Confronted with a demanding and difficult writer like DeLillo, critics have understandably called upon influential postmodern theorists--Jean Baudrillard, Paul de Man, Gilles Deleuze, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, and Hayden White--to provide a vocabulary for addressing the intellectual problems raised by DeLillo's fiction. 3