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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820048903321

Autore

Randall Martin

Titolo

9/11 and the literature of terror [[electronic resource] /] / Martin Randall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-7486-5182-9

0-7486-4697-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

810.9358

Soggetti

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence

Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism

New York (N.Y.) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Eyewitnesses, Conspiracies and Baudrillard -- 1. ‘Beyond Belief’: McEwan, DeLillo and 110 Stories -- 2. ‘Total Malignancy . . . Militant Irony’: Martin Amis, The Second Plane -- 3. ‘You Know How it Ends’: Metafiction and 9/11 in Windows on the World -- 4. ‘A Wing and a Prayer’: Simon Armitage, Out of the Blue -- 5. ‘A Certain Blurring of the Facts’: Man on Wire and 9/11 -- 6. ‘He is Consoling, She is Distraught’: Men and Women and 9/11 in The Mercy Seat and The Guys -- 7. ‘Everything Seemed to Mean Something’: Signifying 9/11 in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man -- Conclusion: ‘I am a Lover of America’ -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 enormous global implications.