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1 online resource (375 pages) |
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text file |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Summary |
Have the terrorist attacks of September 11 shifted the moral coordinates of contemporary fiction? And how might such a shift, reflected in narrative strategies and forms, relate to other themes and trends emerging with the globalization of literature? This book pursues these questions through works written in the wake of 9/11 and examines the complex intersection of ethics and narrative that has defined a significant portion of British and American fiction over the past decade.Don DeLillo, Pat Barker, Aleksandar Hemon, Lorraine Adams, Michael Cunningham, and Patrick McGrath are among the autho |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Ethics, New Literatures, New Americas; 1. Falling Man Fiction: DeLillo,Spiegelman, Schulman, and the Spectatorial Condition; 2. Sex and Sense: McGrath, Tristram, and Psychoanalysis from Ground Zero toAbu Ghraib; 3. Moral Crusades: Race, Risk, and Walt Whitman's Afterlives; 4. The Internationalization of Conscience: Hemon, Barker, Balkanism; 5. Reading for the Pattern: Narrative, Data Mining, and the Transnational Ethics of Surveillance; Conclusion: Postincendiary Circumstances; Notes; Bibliography; Index; |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics in literature. |
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Psychoanalysis in literature.
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Psychoanalysis in literature. |
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Social change in literature.
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Social change in literature. |
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Literature and morals.
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Literature and morals. |
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Literature and society -- United States.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780803240384 |
| ISBN |
9780803244610 |
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0803244614 |
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0803240384 |
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9780803240384 |
| Standard No. |
9786613884725 |
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