LEADER 02900nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910807671603321 005 20240418044711.0 010 $a1-280-48998-7 010 $a9786613585219 010 $a0-8139-2192-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000459978 035 $a(OCoLC)65562456 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495623 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000071179 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11109431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071179 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10069799 035 $a(PQKB)10566592 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443988 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000459978 100 $a20150424d2001|||| s|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCharlottesville, VA, USA$cUniversity of Virginia Press$d20010501 210 $cUniversity of Virginia Press 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8139-2031-0 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 $aHer 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. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM$2bisac 606 $aAmerican / General$2bisac 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTerrorism in literature 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aLiterature - General$2HILCC 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM 615 7$aAmerican / General 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aTerrorism in literature 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aLiterature - General 676 $a809.3/9355 700 $aScanlan$b Margaret$0711046 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807671603321 996 $aPlotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction$94067523 997 $aUNINA