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001 2006282783
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm71230477
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050 00 $aPN3503$b.N645 2006
245 00 $aNovels of the contemporary extreme /$cedited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bContinuum,$cc2006.
300 $axi, 178 p. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aContinuum literary studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
650 0 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aContemporary, The, in literature.
650 0 $aViolence in literature.
650 0 $aPopular culture in literature.
700 1 $aDurand, Alain-Philippe.
700 1 $aMandel, Naomi,$d1969-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0709/2006282783.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1113/2006282783-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1213/2006282783-d.html