Description |
1 online resource (x, 414 pages). |
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text file |
Series |
Costerus,
0165-9618 ;
new series, volume 212
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 212.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Applying melancholia as an analytical concept, Christina Cavedon's Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 discusses novels by Jay McInerney and Don DeLillo in light of an American cultural malaise pre-dating the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Theorizations of melancholia -- Trauma studies in the medico-psychiatric field -- Theorizations of cultural trauma in relation to cultural melancholia -- Cultural narratives activated by the 9/11 attacks -- White middle class melancholia in Jay McInerney's fiction -- Postmodern melancholia and the fantasy of the Tuché in Don DeLillo's pre-9/11 novels -- Falling man's escape into hyperreality -- Conclusion. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature. |
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Melancholy -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Melancholy -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Melancholy. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Cavedon, Christina. Cultural melancholia. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015] 9789004305960 (OCoLC)917361339 |
ISBN |
900430598X |
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9789004305984 (electronic book) |
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9789004305960 |
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