♦ Critical Essays on DON DELILLO ♦ Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CRITICAL ESSAYS ON AMERICAN LITERATURE James Nagel, General Editor University of Georgia, Athens Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ♦ Critical Essays on DON DELILLO ♦ edited by HUGH RUPPERSBURG AND TIM ENGLES G. K. Hall & Co. New York Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Jr.iv. Library, uG Santa ~ruz 20Uu Copyright 10 2000 by G. K. Hall & Co. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy• ing, recording, or by any inf~rmation storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. G. K. Hall & Co. 1633 Broadway New York, NY 10019 library of Congn,ss Cataloging-in-Publication Data Critical essays on Don Delillo/ edited by Hugh Ruppenburg and Tim Engles. p. cm. - (Critical essays on American literature) Indudcs bibliographical references {p. ) and index. ISBN 0-78.~8-0458-X (alk. paper) I. Delillo, Don-Criticism and interpretation. I. Ruppenburg, Hugh M. II. Engles, Tim. Ill. ~ries. PS3554.E4425 26 2000 813'.54--<1c21 00-024507 This paper mceu the requirements of ANSl/NlSO Z3948-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I Printed in the United States of America Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA . . -. . , __.. ~ .. -. • . .-• \ I Contents ♦ General Editor's Note IX . Publisher's Note XI Introduction 1 H UGH RUPPERSBURG AND TIM ENGLES REVIEWS Old Story, Fresh Language (Review of Americana, by Don Delillo} 31 CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-H AUPT A Waugh in Shoulder Padding (Review of End Zone, by Don Delillo} 34 NELSON ALGREN Your Number Is Up (Review of Rainer's Star, by Don Delillo) 3 7 J. D . O'HARA End Game (Review of Players, by Don Delillo] 39 STEPHEN KOCH A Pro's Puckish Prose (Review of An,azons, by "Cleo Birdwell"} 42 ) . D . O'HARA The Fiction of Don Del illo (Review of The Nan1es., by Don Delillo} 45 DAVID BOSWORTH Conspirators (Review of White Noise, by Don Delillo] 51 D IANE JOHNSON Shallow Look at the Mind of an Assassin (Review of Libra, by Don Delillo] 56 GEORGE F. WILL V Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CONTENTS VI • Making Meaningful Worlds: Self and History in Libra {Review of Libra, by Don Delillo} 58 E. WIWAM CAJN Markee Report {Review of Mao II, by Don Delillo} 70 LOUIS MENAND The Blase Felc round che World {Review of Underworld, 76 by Don Delillo} MICHAEL 0IRDA ESSAYS For Whom Bell Tolls: Don Delillo's An1ericana 83 DAVID COWART Deconscruccing che Logos: Don DeLillo's End Zone 97 THOMAS LECLAIR The End of Pynchon's Rainbow: Postmodern Terror and Paranoia in Delillo's Rainer's Star 115 GLEN SCOTT Au.EN Marketing Obsession: The Fascinations of R11nning Dog 13 5 MARK OSTEEN Discussing che Untellable: Don DeLillo's The Nan1es 15 7 PAULA BRYANT "Who are you, literally?": Fantasies of che White Self in Don Delillo's White Noise 171 TIM ENGLES Baudrillard, DeLillo's White Noise, and che End of Heroic N arracive 196 LEONARD WILCOX The Fable of che Anes: Myopic Inceraccions in DeLillo's Libra 213 BIU MILLARD Libra and che Subject of History 229 CHRISTOPHER M. MOTT Can che Incelleccual Scill Speak? The Example of Don DeLillo's Mao II 245 SILVIA CAPORALE BIZZINI Excavating che Underworld of Race and Wasce in Cold War History: Baseball, Aeschecics, and Ideology 258 JOHN N. DUVAU Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CONTENTS • VII Everything Is Connected: Underworld's Secret History of Paranoia 282 PETER KNIGHT Awful Symmetries in Don Delillo's Underworld 302 ARTHUR SALTZMAN Index 317 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA I l Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ------------------------------- General Editor's Note • This series seeks to anthologize the most important criticism on a wide vari ety of topics and writers in American literature. Our readers will find in var ious volumes not only a generous selection of reprinted articles and revic:ws but original essays, bibliographies, manuscript selections, and other materials brought to public attention for the first time. This volume, Critical EJJa)'J on Don DeLillo, is the most comprehensive gathering of essays ever published on one of che most important modern writers in the United States. le contains both a sizable gathering of early reviews and a broad selection of more mod ern scholarship. Among the authors of reprinted articles and reviews are Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Diane Johnson, Nelson Algren, George Will, David Cowart, Paula Bryant, Silvia Caporale Bizzini, and Thomas LeClair. In addition co a substantial introduction by Hugh Ruppersburg and Tim Engles, which surveys Delillo's career and critical responses co it, there are also four original essays commissioned specifically for publication in chis volume. Glen Scocc Allen explores the unique manifestation of postmodern paranoia in Rainer's Star, while Mark Osteen concerns himself with the "marketing obs<:s sion" in Running Dog. Two new studies deal with Underworld: John N. Duvall is concerned with "baseball, aesthetics, and ideology," and Arthur Saltzman with the "awful symmetries" presented in the novel. We are confident that this book will make a permanent and significant contribuciori to the study of American literature. JAMES NA(;EL U11iver1ity of Gef/rgia . IX Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA I Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA