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OverviewStock Characters in 9/11 Fiction considers fictional work of the time subsequent to the attacks. The book develops and investigates models of stock characters in 9/11 fiction who promote the trauma meme within a narrative arc of tragedy; the conceptual evolution of trauma and media as thematic arcs is interpreted within specific 9/11 novels and in correspondence with other terrorist fiction. The almost exclusively male stock character protagonists include the male homosocial perpetrator and the tightrope walker. Among the more recent authors discussed are Amy Waldman and Thomas Pynchon, whose novels illustrate the way characters inhabit media models, rather than, as previously thought, using media for disseminating terrorist events and messaging. Other featured writers include Bernhard Schlink, Don DeLillo, Claire Messud, Ian McEwan, Joseph O’Neill, and Colum McCann. Stock Characters in 9/11 Fiction is a valuable text for scholars of 9/11 fiction, as well as for professors and university students studying contemporary literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sandra SingerPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc Edition: New edition Weight: 0.314kg ISBN: 9781433149405ISBN 10: 1433149400 Pages: 154 Publication Date: 29 May 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – Homosocial Character Dynamics in Bernhard Schlink’s The Weekend – Revisiting the Image of the Falling Man in Novels, Television and Film – Self-subtraction from the System: The Sleeper Cell in Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children – Limitations of the Hyper-rationalist in Ian McEwan’s Saturday – Gambling and Postcolonial Games of Risk in Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland – From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Trauma Meme Transformed in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin – Media Defining Terrorism in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Assignment, Amy Waldman’s The Submission and Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge – Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationSandra Singer (PhD, Cambridge) is Associate Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada. Her previous publications include the co-edited collections Doris Lessing: Interrogating the Times and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook After Fifty, as well as the edited J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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