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Continuum
Language
English
Pages
178

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Subjects
Contemporary, The, in literature, Popular culture in literature, History and criticism, Fiction, Violence in literature, Literature, history and criticism, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Romans, Geweld
Times
20th century

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2010, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2008, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2006, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2006, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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June 1, 2006, Continuum
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London, New York
Series
Continuum literary studies

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Library of Congress
PN3503 .N645 2006

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Pagination
xi, 178 p. ;
Number of pages
178

ID Numbers

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OL17931485M
ISBN 10
0826490883
LCCN
2006282783
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769139

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