TY  - BOOK
AU  - Randall,Martin
TI  - 9/11 and the Literature of Terror
SN  - 9780748638529
U1  - 810.9358 22
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Influence
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature
KW  - American Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646975?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646975
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