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1 Online-Ressource (x, 226 pages)
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illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231520336
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9780231149372
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9780231149365
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9780231520331
Inhalt:
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events & mdash;and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrori
Inhalt:
American melancholia : Don DeLillo's Falling man -- Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers : the politics of trauma -- A rose is not a rose is not a rose : history and language in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud and incredibly close -- Exorcising the ghost : irony and spectralization in Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the world -- September 11 and the other
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Versluys, Kristiaan Out of the blue New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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