9/11 and the Literature of Terror /

9/11 and the Literature of Terror / / Martin Randall.

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Explores the fiction, poetry, theatre and cinema that have represented the 9/11 attacksWorks 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 enormou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Randall, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (174 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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