02848nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10224682 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 060912s2006 enk sb 001 0 eng d 2006282783 0826490883 CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)298788200 PN3503 .N645 2006eb 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 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Fiction 20th century History and criticism. Contemporary, The, in literature. Violence in literature. Popular culture in literature. Electronic books. local Durand, Alain-Philippe. Mandel, Naomi, 1969- ebrary, Inc. Continuum literary studies. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10224682 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 40502 40502