09/11 (eBook, PDF)

Topics in Contemporary North American Literature
Redaktion: Morley, Catherine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have had a profound impact on contemporary American literature and culture. With chapters written by leading scholars, 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature is a wide-ranging guide to literary responses to the attacks and its aftermath. The book covers the most widely studied texts, from Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom to responses in contemporary American poetry and graphic narratives such as Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers.

Including annotated guides to further reading, this is an essential guide for students and readers of contemporary American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472569677
• Artikelnr.: 45095052

Autorenporträt

Catherine Morley is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. Her previous publications include The Quest For Epic in Contemporary American Fiction (2009) and Modern American Literature (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Catherine Morley
University of Leicester
UK) 1. Don DeLillo
Falling Man (2007) (John Duvall
Purdue University
USA) 2. John Updike
Terrorist (2006) (Mark Eaton
Azusa Pacific University
USA) 3. Laila Halaby
West of the Jordan (2003) (Amal Talaat Abdelrazak
Alexandria University
Egypt) 4. Graphic Fictions: Art Spiegelman
In the Shadow of No Towers (2004)
Will Eisner et al
9/11: Artists Respond (2002) and Alissa Torres
American Widow (2008) (David Brauner
University of Reading
UK) 5. Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2004) (Debra Shostak
Wooster College
USA) 6. Jay MacInerney
The Good Life (2006) and Ken Kalfus
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2006) (Kristian Versluys
University of Ghent
Belgium) 7. Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin (2009) (Hamilton Carroll
University of Leeds
UK) 8. Jonathan Franzen
Freedom (2010) (Paul Jenner
University of Loughborough
UK) 9. American Poetry After 9/11 (Ann Keniston
Harvard University
USA) 10. Amy Waldman
The Submission (Catherine Morley
University of Leicester
UK) Index