Literature and terrorism : : comparative perspectives /

Literature and terrorism : : comparative perspectives / / edited by Michael C. Frank and Eva Gruber.

The years following the attacks of September 11, 2001 have seen the publication of a wide range of scientific analyses of terrorism. Literary studies seem to lag curiously behind this general shift of academic interest. The present volume sets out to fill this gap. It does so in the conviction that...

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Superior document:Text (Rodopi (Firm)), 66
TeilnehmendeR:
Frank, Michael C.
Gruber, Eva.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 66.
Physical Description:1 online resource (273 p.)
Notes:International conference proceedings.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • LITERATURE AND TERRORISM: INTRODUCTION / Michael C. Frank and Eva Gruber
  • SERGEY NECHAEV AND DOSTOEVSKY’S DEVILS: THE LITERARY ANSWER TO TERRORISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA / Gudrun Braunsperger
  • PLOTS ON LONDON: TERRORISM IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY BRITISH FICTION / Michael C. Frank
  • ENMITY AND THE ARCHIVE: AESTHETICS OF DEFIGURATION IN LITERATURE AND CRIMINOLOGY, 1900/1970 / Hendrik Blumentrath
  • NARRATING TERRORISM ON THE EVE OF 9/11: ANN PATCHETT’S BEL CANTO / Eva Gruber
  • SELF, IDENTITY AND TERRORISM IN CURRENT AMERICAN LITERATURE: AMERICAN PASTORAL AND TERRORIST / Martina Wolff
  • THE 9/11 NOVEL AND THE POLITICS OF NARCISSISM / Roy Scranton
  • AFTER THE APOCALYPSE: NOVELISTS AND TERRORISTS SINCE 9/11 / Margaret Scanlan
  • LITERARY ACCOUNTS OF TERRORISM IN RECENT GERMAN LITERATURE: AN ATTEMPT AT MARGINALIZATION? / Michael König
  • DOUBLE-MEDIATED TERRORISM: GERHARD RICHTER AND DON DELILLO’S “BAADER-MEINHOF” / Ulrich Meurer
  • A FANTASTIC TALE OF TERROR: ARGENTINA’S “DISAPPEARED” AND THEIR NARRATIVE REPRESENTATION IN JULIO CORTÁZAR’S “SECOND TIME ROUND” / Kirsten Mahlke
  • MIDDLE HOURS: TERRORISM AND NARRATIVE EMPLOTMENT IN ANDRE DUBUS III’S THE GARDEN OF LAST DAYS / Georgiana Banita
  • NARRATIVES OF TERROR: A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE NOVEL? / Marie-Luise Egbert
  • THE IMPACT OF “SEPTEMBER 11”: DRAMATIC AND NARRATIVE CREATIONS / Herbert Grabes
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX.

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