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Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel
Kristiaan Versluys
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Description for Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel
Paperback. Num Pages: 202 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324. September 11 and the Novel. 202 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 15. Weight: 322.
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic cliches and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events--and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrorist. He scrutinizes how these writers affirm the humanity of the disoriented individual, as opposed to the cocksure ... Read more
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic cliches and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events--and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrorist. He scrutinizes how these writers affirm the humanity of the disoriented individual, as opposed to the cocksure ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
202
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
324g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231149372
SKU
V9780231149372
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About Kristiaan Versluys
Kristiaan Versluys is a professor of American literature and culture at Ghent University, Belgium, and a regular visiting professor at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poet in the City: Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States and the editor of Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction.
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Nigel Rodenhurst Times Higher Education Supplement Highly recommended. Choice
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