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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRandall, Martin
_eautore
245 1 0 _a9/11 and the Literature of Terror /
_cMartin Randall.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (174 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tIntroduction: Eyewitnesses, Conspiracies and Baudrillard --
_t1. ‘Beyond Belief’: McEwan, DeLillo and 110 Stories --
_t2. ‘Total Malignancy . . . Militant Irony’: Martin Amis, The Second Plane --
_t3. ‘You Know How it Ends’: Metafiction and 9/11 in Windows on the World --
_t4. ‘A Wing and a Prayer’: Simon Armitage, Out of the Blue --
_t5. ‘A Certain Blurring of the Facts’: Man on Wire and 9/11 --
_t6. ‘He is Consoling, She is Distraught’: Men and Women and 9/11 in The Mercy Seat and The Guys --
_t7. ‘Everything Seemed to Mean Something’: Signifying 9/11 in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man --
_tConclusion: ‘I am a Lover of America’ --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aExplores 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
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
650 0 _aLiterature, Modern
_y21st century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
_xInfluence.
650 0 _aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
650 4 _aAmerican Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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