9/11 and the literature of terror [[electronic resource] /] / Martin Randall

• Autore: Randall Martin
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9358
• Soggetto topico: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence; Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: New York (N.Y.) In literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Explores 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: 9
• ISBN: 0-7486-5182-9; 0-7486-4697-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781681003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II