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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Alain-Philippe Durand , Dr Naomi MandelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9780826490889ISBN 10: 0826490883 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 08 June 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors Introduction; Alian-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel Part I: Americas 1. 'Right Here in Nowheres': American Psycho and Violence's Critique; Naomi Mandel 2. Telling doubles and Literal Minded Reading in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama; Henrik Skov Nielsen 3. Posthumous Voice and Residual Presence in Don DeLillo's The Body Artist; Mikko Keskinen 4. A Post-Apocalyptic World: The Excremental, Abject Female Warriors of Josee Yvon; Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester 5. On the Impossibility of Being Contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle; Martine Delvaux 6. Media-Portrayed Violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja; Jason G. Summers Part II: Europe and the Middle East 7. Sadomasochism, Castration and Rape: Richard Morgieve's Nightmare Theater of Primal Scenes; Ralph Schoolcraft 8. Dantec's Inferno; Lawrence R. Schehr 9. Apocalypse Now: Fins de siecles in the French Novel; Sabine van Wesemael 10. Beyond The Extreme: Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World; Alain-Philippe Durand 11. Amelie Nothomb's Dialectic of the Sublime and the Grotesque; Martine Guyot-Bender 12. Violence Biting Its Own Tail: Martin Amis's Yellow Dog; Jean-Michel Ganteau 13. Beauty and Death as Simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caidos del cielo and El hombre que invento Manhattan; Kathryn Everly 14. Sex, Drugs, and Violence in Lucia Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, prozac y dudas; Catherine Bourland Ross 15- On Human Parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli Extreme; Adia Mendelson-Maoz Bibliography IndexReviewsMention in College Literature, Vol. 36.2, Spring 2009 Durand and Mandel (both, Univ of Rhode Island) collect critical essays that analyze a particular kind of contemporary novel, novels that do not merely reflect on violence [but] seek it out, engage it, and in a variety of imaginative ways, perform it. These essays provide a better understanding of the literary positioning and psychological framework of the contemporary extreme novel, both inside and outside the US. Summing up: Recommended- CHOICE February 2007 Durand and Mandel (both, Univ of Rhode Island) collect critical essays that analyze a particular kind of contemporary novel, novels that do not merely reflect on violence [but] seek it out, engage it, and in a variety of imaginative ways, perform it. These essays provide a better understanding of the literary positioning and psychological framework of the contemporary extreme novel, both inside and outside the US. Summing up: Recommended- CHOICE February 2007 Mention in College Literature, Vol. 36.2, Spring 2009 Durand and Mandel (both, Univ of Rhode Island) collect critical essays that analyze a particular kind of contemporary novel, novels that do not merely reflect on violence [but] seek it out, engage it, and in a variety of imaginative ways, perform it. These essays provide a better understanding of the literary positioning and psychological framework of the contemporary extreme novel, both inside and outside the US. Summing up: Recommended- CHOICE February 2007 Author InformationAlain-Philippe Durand Professor of French and Director of the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SILLC) at the University of Arizona, USA and Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil. Naomi Mandel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Rhode Island, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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