The "Image-Event" in the Early Post-9/11 Novel : a Comparative Study.

How can literature respond to a monumental event, unprecedented historically, politically and culturally, whose memory will forever be inseparable from its mass media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean Baudrillard called an "image-event"? In particular, what form can they use to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kowal, ewa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kraków : Jagiellonian University Press, 2012.
Temas:
2000-2099
Terrorism in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorisme dans la littérature.
Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, États-Unis, dans la littérature.
Littérature > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, États-Unis.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature, Modern
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature
Terrorism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD: WORD ON TERROR; INTRODUCTION: THE IMAGE( -EVENT); CHAPTER I: (AUDIO- )VISUAL MEDIA IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL; I.1. Technology; I.2. The Pattern; I.3. Media in the post-9/11 novel; I.4. "Bigger, brighter, life's so short"- inflammable art in the post-9/11 novel; CHAPTER II: FORM; CHAPTER III: MOTIFS OF CHILDHOOD AND MAGICAL THINKING IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL; III.1. The "proto-child"; III.2. The figure of the "child"; III.3. Magical thinking (1); III.4. Motifs of childhood and magical thinking in the post-9/11 novel.
  • III.5. The post-9/11 novel in the Language ClassroomIII.6. Magical thinking (2): Magic
  • "the most childish of skills"; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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