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Underworlds: Perspectives on Don Lelillo's Underworld
Don DeLillo's 1997 masterwork Underworld, one of the most acclaimed and long-awaited novels of the last twenty years, was immediately recognized as a landmark novel, not only in the long career of one of America's most distinguished novelists but also in the ongoing evolution of the postmodern novel. Vast in scope, intricately organized, and densely allusive, the text prov...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published
October 30th 2002
by University of Delaware Press
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shanties
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Sometimes collected essays are a disappointment.
(a good example is Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Views volume on DeLillo: http://bit.ly/bFOvcn although I suspect in this case the problem is mainly Bloom's personal disappointment with DeLillo as a wannabe Pynchon. No hard feelings, Harold).
Sometimes the authors seem coerced into it & would gladly be writing about something else. Or simply can't write.
Luckily, the 13 essays* collected here are all very good, and the las...more
(a good example is Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Views volume on DeLillo: http://bit.ly/bFOvcn although I suspect in this case the problem is mainly Bloom's personal disappointment with DeLillo as a wannabe Pynchon. No hard feelings, Harold).
Sometimes the authors seem coerced into it & would gladly be writing about something else. Or simply can't write.
Luckily, the 13 essays* collected here are all very good, and the las...more
The first few essays here are excellent in their analysis and critical perspectives on Underworld and really helped me pick up on a few themes and ideas I had missed on my first reading of Underworld, however the essays towards the end of the book start to delve into really obscure topics including one about "what if Stanley Kubrick had directed the Underworld movie?" which was useless in my opinion. The comparison essay between Pynchon's Mason and Dixon and Underworld wasn't as stron...more
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