Plotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction

• Autore: Scanlan Margaret
• Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, VA, USA, : University of Virginia Press, 20010501; University of Virginia Press
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/9355
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM; American / General; Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Terrorism in literature; Languages & Literatures; Literature - General
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plotting Terror : Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction
• ISBN: 1-280-48998-7; 9786613585219; 0-8139-2192-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807671603321
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