9/11 and the literature of terror
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
2011
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-167) and index Introduction: eyewitnesses, conspiracies and baudrillard -- "Beyond belief": McEwan, DeLillo and 110 stories -- "Total malignancy... militant irony": Martin Amis, The second plane -- "You know how it ends": metafiction and 9/11 in Windows on the world -- "A wing and a prayer": Simon Armitage, Out of the blue -- "A certain blurring of the facts": Man on wire and 9/11 -- "He is consoling, she is distraught": men and women and 9/11 in The mercy seat and The guys -- "Everything seemed to mean something": signifying 9/11 in Don DeLillo's Falling man -- Conclusion: "I am a lover of America." Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacks. Works by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Don DeLillo, Simon Armitage and Mohsin Hamid are discussed in relation to the specific problems of writing about such a visually spectacular 'event' that has had enormous global implications |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (174 S.) |
| ISBN: | 9780748646975 0748646973 9780748651825 0748651829 9780748638529 0748638520 |