Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel

Kristiaan Versluys

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Paper, 240 pages, 5 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14937-2
$24.50 / £17.00

July, 2009
Cloth, 240 pages, 5 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14936-5
$79.50 / £55.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction. 9/11: The Discursive Responses

1. American Melancholia: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

2. Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers: The Politics of Trauma

3. A Rose Is Not a Rose Is Not a Rose: History and Language in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

4. Exorcising the Ghost: Irony and Spectralization in Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World

5. September 11 and the Other

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• American Literature
• American Studies
• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Urban History

About the Author

Kristiaan Versluys is a professor of American literature and culture at Ghent University, Belgium, and a regular visiting professor at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poet in the City: Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States and the editor of Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction.

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