| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
991044
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b745414
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Novels of the contemporary extreme /\ edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
London ;New York :: Continuum,, ©2006.
|
| Series Statement
|
:
|
Continuum literary studies
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (xi, 178 pages)
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
128129537X
|
|
|
:
|
: 1441162135
|
|
|
:
|
: 1472542673
|
|
|
:
|
: 1847062644
|
|
|
:
|
: 1847140394
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781281295378
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781441162137
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781472542670
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781847062642
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781847140395
|
|
|
:
|
0826490883
|
|
|
:
|
9780826490889
|
|
|
:
|
9781441162137 (PDF)
|
|
|
:
|
9781847062642 (paperback)
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas / Catherine Bourland Ross -- On human parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli extreme / Adia Mendelson-Maoz.
|
|
|
:
|
Part I. The Americas. "Right here in nowheres": American psycho and violence's critique / Naomi Mandel -- Telling doubles and literal-minded reading in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama / Henrik Skov Nielsen -- Posthumous voice and residual presence in Don DeLillo's The body artist / Mikko Keskinen -- A post-apocalyptic world: the excremental, abject female warriors of Josée Yvon / Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester -- On the impossibility of being contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle / Martine Delvaux -- Media-portrayed violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja / Jason Summers -- Part II. Europe and the Middle East. Sadomasochism, castration and rape: Richard Morgiève's nightmare theater of primal scenes / Ralph Schoolcraft -- Dantec's Inferno / Lawrence R. Schehr -- Michel Houellebecq: a fin de siècle for the twentieth century / Sabine van Wesemael -- Beyond the extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the world / Alain-Philippe Durand -- Amélie Nothomb's dialectic of the sublime and the grotesque / Martine Guyot-Bender -- Violence biting its own tail: Martin Amis's Yellow dog / Jean-Michel Ganteau -- Beauty and death as simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caídos del cielo and El hombre que inventó Manhattan / Kathryn Everly -- Sex, drugs and violence in Lucía.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
Investigates a new form of fiction in contemporary literature across the globe. This collection of essays identifies and describes this international phenomenon, investigating the appeal of these novels' styles and themes, the reasons behind their success, and the fierce debates they provoked.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Contemporary, The, in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Popular culture in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Violence in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Contemporary, The, in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Fiction.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Gewalt-- Motiv (Literatur)-- Roman-- Geschichte-- 1970-2005, Aufsatzsammlung.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Gewalt-- Motiv-- Roman.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Popular culture in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Roman-- Geschichte-- 1970-2005, Aufsatzsammlung.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Roman-- Motiv (Literatur)-- Gewalt-- Geschichte-- 1970-2005, Aufsatzsammlung.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Roman-- Motiv-- Gewalt.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Roman-- Geschichte 20. Jh.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Violence in literature.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Zeitgeist-- Roman-- Geschichte-- 1970-2005, Aufsatzsammlung.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Geweld.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Romans.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
809.304
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
PN3503.N645 2006eb
|
| NLM classification
|
:
|
17.93bcl
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Durand, Alain-Philippe.
|
|
|
:
|
Mandel, Naomi,1969-
|