...Thomas Heise © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Degenerate Sex and the City: Djuna Barnes’s Urban Underworld Degenerate Sex and the City: Djuna Barnes’s Urban Underworld Thomas Heise In a remarkable but largely overlooked 1918 interview with New York City Police Commissioner...

...Andrew Strombeck This article reads Don DeLillo’s Underworld (1997) as scrutinizing the relationship between art and deskilled labor in the period from 1973 through 1997. Examining a relatively understudied set of chapters set in the 1970s, it considers them in the context of theoretical work...

...Rachel Falconer Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Bouncing Down to the Underworld: Classical Katabasis in The Ground Beneath Her Feet Rachel Falconer I n an essay on Italo Calvino, Rushdie writes that “perhaps the most dominant characteristic of Calvino’s entire output...

...Stephanie Lambert “Everyday things represent the most overlooked forms of knowledge,” claims Father Paulus, the Jesuit priest in Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld (1997). What tends to go overlooked in DeLillo’s work, this article proposes, is the socio-ecological violence of the capitalist world...

... in DeLillo s claim that his magnum opus, Underworld (1992), is a holistic representation of the “deep mind of the culture” (205), which DeLillo conceives of as a single intentional system inaccessible to his various char­ acters. This conception is responsible for the structural fragmentation...

... not discuss Paradise, or, for that matter, Don DeLillo’s Underworld (1997), which of course is his right (although his focus on earlier novels leaves little time for the ideas he ascribes to the Cold War’s end to filter into the novels). If for these and other reasons we do not buy Michaels’s take...

.... The Moor, who unwittingly insults his mother and trades an eroticized relationship with her for a doomed affair with multipersonality Uma, is disinherited for his disloyalty and cast into the underworld from the Eden of his mother’s artistic salon. The cost of los­ ing his mother’s love...

... the media of human com- munication and also, importantly, beyond media’s communicative functions. (58) It is within this context that Hungerford analyzes DeLillo’s novels— principally Libra, Mao II, The Names, and Underworld—to explore how a “mystical understanding of language” (59...

... a computerized enhancement of the Zapruder film that he believes is unnecessary, but he views it none- theless, anticipating a “new way of seeing” the old evidence elaborated in Underworld. There the film, which was mined by each commission and considered the definitive and most elusive piece of evidence...

... University Press . Heise Thomas . 2011 . Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Herring Scott . 2007 . Queering the Underworld . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Hitchcock...

... the photos DeLillo places within the novel, an authorial gesture that challenges such reflexive dismissals. He does better with Underworld, and compellingly demonstrates how this massive novel both invites and frustrates system building, seeming to allow all connections even as it exposes the perils...

... in these lines evoke Trinidad more than any of the Odyssey’s legendary islands. Walcott’s cultural mélange continues in 1.13 as he invents a voodoo ceremony through which to transport Odysseus from Circe’s Aeaea into 379 Robert D. Hamner his version of the underworld. Circe introduces...

... Generation.” 49.1 (2003): 82-102 .E liot, T. S. See Cuda; Fluet Ellison, Ralph. See Genter; Singer Engle, Howard. See Durham Engle,John.“Friends and Strangers.” 49.1 (2003): 1-11 Falconer, Rachel. “Bouncing Down to the Underworld: Classical Katabasis in The Ground Beneath Her Feet." 47.4...

... Morrison’s Paradise, all of which were published, remarkably, in 1997. (Another of Cohen’s texts, Don DeLillo’s Underworld, was also published in that year, marking perhaps a high-water mark for American fiction of the 1990s.) This coincidence might be understood, Cohen argues, “partly as what...

... espionage. Grausam then turns to DeLillo’s Underworld (1997), which begins with the “shot heard round the world” on October 3, 1951—the game-winning home run by Bobby Thomson of the New York Giants over the Brooklyn Dodgers but also “the triumph of death” as the New York Times reports the Soviet Union’s...

... of Wilde’s “The Harlot’s House,” a poem of 1885 that presents in an English version of terza rima a descent into an urban underworld that involves prominent mention of a puppet, a marionette, and automatons. Especially considering Wilde’s imitation of Dante’s poetic form, Eliot would have known the poem...

... Rapier while visiting the Counterforce underworld, the authors discuss the theo- scientific philosophy of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I cannot do justice to this section here, but it deals with the implications of, and “chances for freedom” within, the relationships between a “critical mass...

.... On a contrasting note, other nuclear apocalypse narratives—Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove and Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, for example—stress the random, absurd nature of nuclear annihilation. In Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Lenny Bruce’s runningjoke during the Cuban missile crisis, “We’re all gonna die reveals...

... examples are T im O ’B rien’s 1994 In the Lake of the Woods, Joan D idion’s 1996 The Last Thing He Want­ ed, and D on DeLillo’s Underworld, Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, Philip R o th ’s American Pastoral, and Toni M orrison’s Paradise, all 1997. Each o f these historical novels...

... of the fantastic leaves his reader (and often the narrator, a reader internal to the text) hesitating between the dominant world of heteronormativity and the unspeakable underworld of proscribed desire. By not specifying that underworld, Forster is still able to delineate it, limn it in shadow form...