03161nam 2200673 a 450 991082004890332120240405201126.00-7486-5182-90-7486-4697-310.1515/9780748646975(CKB)2550000000043469(EBL)1961965(SSID)ssj0000628009(PQKBManifestationID)11401334(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628009(PQKBWorkID)10701504(PQKB)11746015(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055482(MiAaPQ)EBC1961965(Au-PeEL)EBL1961965(CaPaEBR)ebr10657028(CaONFJC)MIL729434(OCoLC)815281411(DE-B1597)615522(DE-B1597)9780748646975(OCoLC)1302165152(EXLCZ)99255000000004346920110818d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccr9/11 and the literature of terror[electronic resource] /Martin Randall1st ed.Edinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20111 online resource (185 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-98152-3 0-7486-3852-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.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 --IndexExplores 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.September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literatureSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001InfluenceLiterature, Modern21st centuryHistory and criticismNew York (N.Y.)In literatureSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001Influence.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.810.9358Randall Martin1675268MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK991082004890332194040601UNINA