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Plotting Terror: Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction
Margaret Scanlan
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paperback. By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, this work asks whether the writer's relationship to politics may be reduced in the age of television and the Internet. It shows that some writers imagine an encounter with terrorists as a test of the alliance between writer and revolutionary. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; DSK; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Is literature dangerous? By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, this work raises the possibility that the writer's relationship to actual politics may be considerably reduced in the age of television and the Internet. Margaret Scanlan traces the figure of the writer as rival or double of the terrorist from its origins in the romantic conviction of the writer's originality and power through a century of political, social and technological developments that undermine that belief. She argues that serious writers like Friedrich Durrenmatt, Doris Lessing, and Don DeLillo imagine a contemporary writer's encounter with terrorists as a test ... Read more
Is literature dangerous? By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, this work raises the possibility that the writer's relationship to actual politics may be considerably reduced in the age of television and the Internet. Margaret Scanlan traces the figure of the writer as rival or double of the terrorist from its origins in the romantic conviction of the writer's originality and power through a century of political, social and technological developments that undermine that belief. She argues that serious writers like Friedrich Durrenmatt, Doris Lessing, and Don DeLillo imagine a contemporary writer's encounter with terrorists as a test ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813920351
SKU
V9780813920351
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