Novels of the contemporary extreme (Record no. 26353)
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| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Novels of the contemporary extreme |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Continuum, |
| Year of publication | c2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 178 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Continuum literary studies |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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 Jos�ee 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 Morgi�eve's nightmare theater of primal scenes / Ralph Schoolcraft -- Dantec's Inferno / Lawrence R. Schehr -- Michel Houellebecq: a fin de si�ecle for the twentieth century / Sabine van Wesemael -- Beyond the extreme: Fr�ed�eric Beigbeder's Windows on the world / Alain-Philippe Durand -- Am�elie 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 Ca�idos del cielo and El hombre que invent�o Manhattan / Kathryn Everly -- Sex, drugs and violence in Luc�ia 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 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Fiction |
| Topical Term | Contemporary, The, in literature. |
| Topical Term | Violence in literature. |
| Topical Term | Popular culture in literature. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Durand, Alain-Philippe. |
| Personal name | Mandel, Naomi, |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10224682 |
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