02900nam 2200613 a 450 991080767160332120240418044711.01-280-48998-797866135852190-8139-2192-9(CKB)1000000000459978(OCoLC)65562456(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495623(SSID)ssj0000071179(PQKBManifestationID)11109431(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071179(PQKBWorkID)10069799(PQKB)10566592(MiAaPQ)EBC3443988(EXLCZ)99100000000045997820150424d2001|||| s|| |engurcnu||||||||txtccrPlotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction1st ed.Charlottesville, VA, USAUniversity of Virginia Press20010501University of Virginia Press1 online resource (214 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-2031-0 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.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 exercise of political power to the fiction writer's power in the world.LITERARY CRITICISMbisacAmerican / GeneralbisacFiction20th centuryHistory and criticismTerrorism in literatureLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCLiterature - GeneralHILCCLITERARY CRITICISMAmerican / GeneralFictionHistory and criticismTerrorism in literatureLanguages & LiteraturesLiterature - General809.3/9355Scanlan Margaret711046PQKBBOOK9910807671603321Plotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction4067523UNINA