Novels of the contemporary extreme  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel. 
 - London ;  New York :  Continuum,  c2006. 
 - xi, 178 p. 
 - Continuum literary studies .
 - Continuum literary studies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 Josee 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 Morgieve's nightmare theater of primal scenes / Ralph Schoolcraft -- Dantec's Inferno / Lawrence R. Schehr -- Michel Houellebecq: a fin de siecle for the twentieth century / Sabine van Wesemael -- Beyond the extreme: Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the world / Alain-Philippe Durand -- Amelie 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 Caidos del cielo and El hombre que invento Manhattan / Kathryn Everly -- Sex, drugs and violence in Lucia Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas / Catherine Bourland Ross -- On human parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli extreme / Adia Mendelson-Maoz. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Fiction--History and criticism.--20th century<br/>Contemporary, The, in literature.<br/>Violence in literature.<br/>Popular culture in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3503  / .N645 2006