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Autore |
Scanlan Margaret |
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Titolo |
Plotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction |
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Charlottesville, VA, USA, : University of Virginia Press, 20010501 |
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University of Virginia Press |
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ISBN |
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1-280-48998-7 |
9786613585219 |
0-8139-2192-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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LITERARY CRITICISM |
American / General |
Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Terrorism in literature |
Languages & Literatures |
Literature - General |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Intorduction -- Part I: The Terrorist Rival -- Chapter 1: Don DeLillo's Mao II and the Rushdie Affair -- Chapter 2: Eoin McNamee's Resurrection Man -- Part II: Displaced Causes -- Chapter 3: Mary McCarthy's Cannibals and Missionaries -- Chapter 4: Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist -- Part III: Novelist as Terrorist: Terrorism as Fiction -- Chapter 5: J. M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg -- Chapter 6: Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Assignment -- Part IV: Is Terrorism Dead? -- Chapter 7: Philip Roth's and Robert Stone's Jerusalem Novels -- Chapter 8: Volodine's Lisbonne Dernière Marge -- Epilogue: Conrad and the Unabomber -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Her analyses take the reader on a fascinating exploration of the relationship between actual bombs and stories about bombings, from the modern world to its electronic representation, and from the |
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