Novels of the contemporary extreme
By: edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.
Contributors: Durand, Alain-Philippe.; Mandel, Naomi, 1969-
Series: Continuum literary studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Contemporary, The, in literature.; Violence in literature.; Popular culture in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The Americas. "Right here in nowheres": American psycho and violence's critique / Naomi Mandel; title: Telling doubles and literal-minded reading in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama / Henrik Skov Nielsen; title: Posthumous voice and residual presence in Don DeLillo's The body artist / Mikko Keskinen; title: A post-apocalyptic world: the excremental, abject female warriors of Josée Yvon / Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester; title: On the impossibility of being contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle / Martine Delvaux; title: Media-portrayed violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja / Jason Summers; title: Part II. Europe and the Middle East. Sadomasochism, castration and rape: Richard Morgiève's nightmare theater of primal scenes / Ralph Schoolcraft; title: Dantec's Inferno / Lawrence R. Schehr; title: Michel Houellebecq: a fin de siècle for the twentieth century / Sabine van Wesemael; title: Beyond the extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the world / Alain-Philippe Durand; title: Amélie Nothomb's dialectic of the sublime and the grotesque / Martine Guyot-Bender; title: Violence biting its own tail: Martin Amis's Yellow dog / Jean-Michel Ganteau; title: Beauty and death as simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caídos del cielo and El hombre que inventó Manhattan / Kathryn Everly; title: Sex, drugs and violence in Lucía Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas / Catherine Bourland Ross; title: On human parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli extreme / Adia Mendelson-Maoz.