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UNINA9910785619403321 |
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Autore |
Banita Georgiana |
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Titolo |
Plotting justice [[electronic resource] ] : narrative ethics and literary culture after 9/11 / / Georgiana Banita |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-57227-3 |
9786613884725 |
0-8032-4461-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (375 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence |
Ethics in literature |
Psychoanalysis in literature |
Social change in literature |
Literature and morals |
Literature and society - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: new ethics, new literatures, new Americas -- Falling man fiction : Delillo, Spiegelman, Shulman, and the spectatorial condition -- Sex and sense : McGrath, Tristram, and psychoanalysis from Ground Zero to Abu Ghraib -- Moral crusades : race, risk, and Walt Whitman's afterlives -- The internationalization of conscience : Hemon, Barker, Balkanism -- Reading for the pattern : narrative, data mining, and the transnational ethics of surveillance -- Conclusion : postincendiary circumstances. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the moral coordinates of contemporary fiction? And how might such a shift, reflected in narrative strategies and forms, relate to other themes and trends emerging with the globalization of literature? This book pursues these questions through works written in the wake of 9/11 and |
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examines the complex intersection of ethics and narrative that has defined a significant portion of British and American fiction over the past decade.Don DeLillo, Pat Barker, Aleksandar Hemon, Lorraine Adams, Michael Cunningham, and Patrick McGrath are among the |
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