| Description |
1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) |
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American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature. |
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Versluys, Kristiaan. Out of the blue. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008052348 |
| ISBN |
9780231520331 (electronic book) |
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0231520336 (electronic book) |
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9780231149365 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780231149372 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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