The rhetoric of terror : reflections on 9/11 and the war on terror /
"The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. A trace of this cultural shock echoes in the American idiom 9/11: a bare name-date conveying both a trauma (the unspeakable happened then) and a claim on our knowledge. In the first of the two interlinked essa...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2009.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Spectral Life and the Rhetoric of Terror
- Part I: Virtual Trauma. September 11
- Ground Zero
- Like a Movie
- The Gigantic
- World Trade Center and United 93
- Virtual Trauma and True Mourning
- Part II: War on Terror. The Sovereign and the Terrorist
- Sovereignty at War
- Terror
- Terror in Letters
- Romanticism and the War on Terror
- Toward Perpetual Peace.