LEADER 03984nam 22006012 450 001 9910462195303321 005 20160602135441.0 010 $a83-233-8491-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000211999 035 $a(EBL)928497 035 $a(OCoLC)794664110 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000909991 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11519336 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000909991 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10931101 035 $a(PQKB)11490768 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9788323384915 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC928497 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL928497 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10596997 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000211999 100 $a20140424d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe "image-event" in the early post-9/11 novel $eliterary representations of terror after September 11, 2001 /$fEwa Kowal$b[electronic resource] 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aKrakow :$cJagiellonian University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (150 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016). 311 $a83-233-3317-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD: WORD ON TERROR; INTRODUCTION: THE IMAGE(-EVENT); CHAPTER I: (AUDIO-)VISUAL MEDIA IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL; I.1. Technology; I.2. The Pattern; I.3. Media in the post-9/11 novel; I.4. "Bigger, brighter, life's so short"- inflammable art in the post-9/11 novel; CHAPTER II: FORM; CHAPTER III: MOTIFS OF CHILDHOOD AND MAGICAL THINKING IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL; III.1. The "proto-child"; III.2. The figure of the "child"; III.3. Magical thinking (1); III.4. Motifs of childhood and magical thinking in the post-9/11 novel 327 $aIII.5. The post-9/11 novel in the Language ClassroomIII.6. Magical thinking (2): Magic - "the most childish of skills"; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY 330 $aHow can literature respond to a monumental event, unprecedented historically, politically and culturally, whose memory will forever be inseparable from its mass media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean Baudrillard called an "image-event"? In particular, what form can they use to convey the unspeakable - that was at the same time broadcast live across the globe? These questions are central to Ewa Kowal's comparative study of thirteen early post-9/11 novels. Written in four different Western countries between 2003 and 2007, during the now historical time of George W. Bush's "war on terror," the selected works provide the earliest literary reactions to the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks and/or their aftermath. Kowal examines them in a wider cultural context, focusing especially on audio-visual media, motifs of childhood and magical thinking as well as the destabilised division into reality and fiction. Offering an original reading of the whole body of work, the author places each analysed book on a scale according to its closeness to a terrorist attack, revealing a correspondence between the distance from the tragedy, the levels of danger and risk taken and the degree of formal (un)conventionality. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature 606 $aTerrorism in literature 606 $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature. 615 0$aTerrorism in literature. 615 0$aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence. 676 $a813/.6093587393 700 $aKowal$b Ewa$0888276 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462195303321 996 $aThe "image-event" in the early post-9$91984463 997 $aUNINA