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The "image-event" in the early post-9/11 novel : literary representations of terror after September 11, 2001 / Ewa Kowal.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Kowal, Ewa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: KrakoĢw : Jagiellonian University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Qaida (Organization)
Terrorism in literature.
Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature, Modern
September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001) in literature
Terrorism in literature
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • III.5. The post-9/11 novel in the Language ClassroomIII.6. Magical thinking (2): Magic
  • "the most childish of skills"; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

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