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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (174 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748638529
  • 9780748646975
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  • 810.9358 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 enormous global implications. Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11.Key FeaturesContributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermathFocus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelistFocus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayistMan on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11
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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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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 enormous global implications. Other chapters analyse initial responses to 9/11, the intriguing tensions between fiction and non-fiction, the challenge of describing traumatic history and the ways in which the terrorist attacks have been discussed culturally in the decade since September 11.Key FeaturesContributes to the growing literature on 9/11, presenting an over-view of some of the main texts that have represented the attacks and their aftermathFocus on Don DeLillo: adds to the literature surrounding this major American novelistFocus on Martin Amis: adds to the growing critical work on this much discussed British novelist and essayistMan on Wire: provides a critical analysis of this Oscar winning film regarding its oblique references to 9/11

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