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Title Terrorism, media, and the ethics of fiction : transatlantic perspectives on Don Delillo / edited by Peter Schneck and Philipp Schweighauser.

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 255 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Conference proceedings held at the University of Osnabruck from April 25-27, 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: THE AMERICAN AND THE EUROPEAN DELILLO; PART 1: MEMORY WORK AFTER 9/11; PART 2: WRITERS, TERRORISTS, AND THE MASSES; PART 3: DON DELILLO AND JOHAN GRIMONPREZ; PART 4: DEATHWARD AND OTHER PLOTS; PART 5: THE ETHICS OF FICTION; PART 6: CODA; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX.
Summary In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, "Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness." DeLillo suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature seriously mean.
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Subject DeLillo, Don -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
DeLillo, Don.
Criticism and interpretation.
Terrorism in literature -- Congresses.
Terrorism in literature.
Ethics in literature -- Congresses.
Ethics in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Schweighauser, Philipp.
Schneck, Peter, 1943-
Other Form: Print version: Terrorism, media, and the ethics of fiction. New York : Continuum, ©2010 9781441139931 (OCoLC)535494707
ISBN 9781441113733 (electronic book)
1441113738 (electronic book)
9781441139931
1441139931