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Title Novels of the contemporary extreme / edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel
Published London ; New York : Continuum, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 178 pages)
Series Continuum literary studies
Continuum literary studies.
Contents 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
Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas / Catherine Bourland Ross -- On human parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli extreme / Adia Mendelson-Maoz
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Contemporary, The, in literature.
Violence in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Contemporary, The, in literature
Fiction
Popular culture in literature
Violence in literature
Grenzsituation Motiv
Roman
Extreme Gegenwart
Romans.
Geweld.
Gewalt -- Motiv -- Roman.
Roman -- Motiv -- Gewalt.
Roman -- Geschichte 20. Jh.
Gewalt -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Roman -- Geschichte -- 1970-2005 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Roman -- Motiv (Literatur) -- Gewalt -- Geschichte -- 1970-2005 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Zeitgeist -- Roman -- Geschichte -- 1970-2005 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Roman -- Geschichte -- 1970-2005 -- Aufsatzsammlung.
Skönlitteratur -- 1900-talet.
Våld i litteraturen.
Populärkultur.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Durand, Alain-Philippe.
Mandel, Naomi, 1969-
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