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Novels of the contemporary extreme
- Title
- Novels of the contemporary extreme / edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2006.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 178 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Continuum literary studies
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-12708
- ISBN
- 0826490883
- OCLC
- 71230477
- Title
- Novels of the contemporary extreme / edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2006.
- Series
- Continuum literary studies
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Durand, Alain-Philippe.Mandel, Naomi, 1969-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-12708