![]() ![]() ![]() UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld. ![]() They find it not through DeLillo's reworking of Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" in the "Black-and-White Ball"īook Notes Joseph Dewey, Steven G. Edgar Hoover and Sister Edgar, Dewey and Irving Malin find resolution in the "third Edgar": Edgar Allan Poe (20). Close-reading the "stubborn dichotomy" of J. In their keen attention to the nuances of DeLillo's language, the first three essays are the most traditional-even formalist-of the collection. Showing us how Poe, Pynchon, Updike, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Lenny Bruce, and others inform DeLillo's novel, these writers suggest new ways of re-reading Underworld and "open further speculation" on the work, just as Dewey hopes they might (15). Indeed, a good number of these essays employ a style sufficiently lucid as to be accessible to most undergraduate students. Twelve of these essays succeed admirably, offering thoughtful assessments in succinct, clear prose-a rarity in academic writing. 219 pp This volume offers thirteen ways of looking at Underworld, revealing some of those layers of meaning that lie "under words," as Joseph Dewey says in his introduction (9). Newark and London: U of Delaware P and Associated University Presses, 2002. UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld (review) UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld (review)īook Notes Joseph Dewey, Steven G. ![]()
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