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1 online resource (151 pages) |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD: WORD ON TERROR; INTRODUCTION: THE IMAGE( -EVENT); CHAPTER I: (AUDIO- )VISUAL MEDIA IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL; I.1. Technology; I.2. The Pattern; I.3. Media in the post-9/11 novel; I.4. "Bigger, brighter, life's so short"- inflammable art in the post-9/11 novel; CHAPTER II: FORM; CHAPTER III: MOTIFS OF CHILDHOOD AND MAGICAL THINKING IN THE POST-9/11 NOVEL; III.1. The "proto-child"; III.2. The figure of the "child"; III.3. Magical thinking (1); III.4. Motifs of childhood and magical thinking in the post-9/11 novel |
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III.5. The post-9/11 novel in the Language ClassroomIII.6. Magical thinking (2): Magic -- "the most childish of skills"; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
How can literature respond to a monumental event, unprecedented historically, politically and culturally, whose memory will forever be inseparable from its mass media coverage? How can writers represent what Jean Baudrillard called an "image-event"? In particular, what form can they use to convey the unspeakable - that was at the same time broadcast live across the globe? These questions are central to Ewa Kowal's comparative study of thirteen early post-9/11 novels. Written in four different Western countries between 2003 and 2007, during the now historical time of George W. Bush's "war on te |
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Print version record |
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Terrorism in literature.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
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Literature, Modern -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature, Modern
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature
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Terrorism in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9788323384915 |
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8323384916 |
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