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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Randall, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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."