9/11 and the literature of terror /
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 enormo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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."