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Terrorism and modern literature from Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson / Alex Houen.
Van Pelt Library PR478.T47 H68 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houen, Alex.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Terrorism in literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.
- Conrad, Joseph.
- Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957.
- Lewis, Wyndham.
- Carson, Ciaran, 1948-2019.
- Carson, Ciaran.
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
- Pound, Ezra.
- Abish, Walter.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 310 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Looking at 100 years of terrorism in print--from Conrad on Anarchism in the 1880s to Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson on the "Troubles" in the 1980s--Terrorism and Modern Literature offers a fresh perspective on terrorism's cultural aftermath. In this first extensive study of the phenomenon, Alex Houen explores the historical and political dimensions of writing terrorism in the modern world.
- Contents:
- Joseph Conrad: entropolitics and the sense of terror
- Wyndham Lewis: literary 'strikes' and allegorical assaults
- Ezra Pound: anti-Semitism, segregationism and the 'arsenal of live thought'
- Walter Abish: plotting everyday terror
- Conclusion : re-placing terror: poetic mappings of Northern Ireland's 'troubles'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 019818770X
- 0198187718
- OCLC:
- 50055162
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