Literature and terrorism
Subtitle: comparative perspectives
By: edited by Michael C. Frank and Eva Gruber
Series: Textxet -- 66; Text (Rodopi (Firm)) -- 66.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9789042034983
Subjects: Terrorism in literature; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literature and terrorism: introduction  -- Michael C. Frank and Eva Gruber; title: The emergence of the terrorist in fiction: literary-historical approaches.; title: Sergey Nechaev and Dostoevsky's Devils: the literary answer to terrorism in nineteenth-century Russia  -- Gudrun Braunsperger ;; title: Plots on London: terrorism in turn-of-the-century British fiction  -- Michael C. Frank ;; title: Enmity and the archive: aesthetics of defiguration in literature and criminology, 1900/1970  -- Hendrik Blumentrath; title: Pre- and post-9/11 representations of terrorism in fiction: continuities and breaks.; title: Narrating terrorism on the eve of 9/11: Ann Patchett's Bel canto  -- Eva Gruber ;; title: Self, identity and terrorism in current American literature: American pastoral and terrorist  -- Martina Wolff ;; title: The 9/11 novel and the politics of narcissism  -- Roy Scranton ;; title: After the apocalypse: novelists and terrorists since 9/11  -- Margaret Scanlan ;; title: Literary accounts of terrorism in recent German literature: an attempt at marginalization?  -- Michael König; title: Narrativizations of terror: media and modes, plot and form.; title: Double-mediated terrorism: Gerhard Richter and Don DeLillo's "Baader-Meinhof"  -- Ulrich Meurer ;; title: A fantastic tale of terror: Argentina's "disappeared" and their narrative representation in Julio Cortázar's "Second time round"  -- Kirsten Mahlke ;; title: Middle hours: terrorism and narrative emplotment in Andre Dubus III's The garden of last days  -- Georgiana Banita; title: The question of genre: drama and narrative literature after 9/11.; title: Narratives of terror: a new paradigm for the novel?  -- Marie-Luise Egbert ;; title: The impact of "September 11": dramatic and narrative creations -- Herbert Grabes.