02848nam a2200361 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020001500112040002100127035002100148050002500169245011500194260004500309300001500354490003100369504005100400505145700451533015201908650005002060650003802110650002802148650003502176655002902211700002802240700002602268710001702294830003202311856012602343999001702469ebr10224682CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||060912s2006    enk     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2006282783  z0826490883  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)29878820014aPN3503b.N645 2006eb00aNovels of the contemporary extremeh[electronic resource] /cedited by Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.  aLondon ;aNew York :bContinuum,cc2006.  axi, 178 p.1 aContinuum literary studies  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.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 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aFictiony20th centuryxHistory and criticism. 0aContemporary, The, in literature. 0aViolence in literature. 0aPopular culture in literature. 7aElectronic books.2local1 aDurand, Alain-Philippe.1 aMandel, Naomi,d1969-2 aebrary, Inc. 0aContinuum literary studies.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10224682zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c40502d40502