Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel by Versluys, Kristiaan

Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231149365)

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Format: Hardcover
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Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel by Versluys, Kristiaan

Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel

$105.00
Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel by Versluys, Kristiaan

Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events--and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World, and John Updike's Terrorist. He scrutinizes how these writers affirm the humanity of the disoriented individual, as opposed to the cocksure killer or politician, and retranslate hesitation, stuttering, or stammering into a precarious act of defiance. Versluys also discusses works by Ian McEwan, Anita Shreve, Martin Amis, and Michael Cunningham, arguing for the novel's distinct power in rendering the devastation of 9/11.

Author: Kristiaan Versluys
ISBN-10: 0231149360
ISBN-13: 9780231149365
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2009
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/11/2009 pg. 16
Choice 04/01/2010
By Kristiaan Versluys
By Kristiaan Versluys
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Kristiaan Versluys is a professor of American literature and culture at Ghent University, Belgium, and a regular visiting professor at Columbia University. He is the author of The Poet in the City: Chapters in the Development of Urban Poetry in Europe and the United States and the editor of Neo-Realism in Contemporary American Fiction.

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