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_b.N645 2006
245 0 0 _aNovels of the contemporary extreme
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bContinuum,
_cc2006.
300 _axi, 178 p.
490 1 _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 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aDurand, Alain-Philippe.
700 1 _aMandel, Naomi,
_d1969-
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aContinuum literary studies.
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=436099
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