Terrorism, media, and the ethics of fiction transatlantic perspectives on Don Delillo edited by Peter Schneck and Philipp Schweighauser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schweighauser, Philipp, editor.

Schneck, Peter, 1943- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

DeLillo, Don--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

DeLillo, Don.

DeLillo, Don--Political and social views--Congresses.

Terrorism in mass media--Congresses.

Terrorism in mass media.

Mass media and literature--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Mass media and literature.

Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Politics and literature.

Terrorism in literature--Congresses.

Terrorism in literature.

Ethics in literature--Congresses.

Ethics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York Continuum 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness.' DeLillo suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his media critique. This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective. Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context

Contents:

Introduction

Philipp Schweighauser and Peter Schneck

Memory Work after 9

11

1. The Wake of Terror: Don DeLillo's "In the Ruins of the Future," "Baader-Meinhof," and Falling Man

Linda S. Kauffman

2. Grieving and Memory in Don DeLillo's Falling Man

Silvia Caporale Bizzini

3. Collapsing Identities: The Representation and Imagination of the Terrorist in Falling Man

Sascha Pöhlmann

Writers, Terrorists, and the Masses

4. 6,500 Weddings and 2,750 Funerals: Mao II, Falling Man, and the Mass Effect

Mikko Keskinen

5. Influence and Self-Representation: Don DeLillo's Artists and Terrorists in Postmodern Mass Society

Leif Grössinger

6. The Art of Terror

the Terror of Art: DeLillo's Still Life of 9

11, Giorgio Morandi, Gerhard Richter, and Performance Art

Julia Apitzsch

Don DeLillo and Johan Grimonprez

7. Grimonprez's Remix

Eben Wood

8. Dial T for Terror: Don DeLillo's Mao II and Johan Grimonprez' Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Martyn Colebrook

Deathward and Other Plots

9. Terror, Asceticism, and Epigrammatic Writing in Don DeLillo's Fiction

Paula Martín Salván

10. The End of Resolution? Reflections on the Ethics of Closure in Don DeLillo's Detective Plots

Philipp Schweighauser and Adrian S. Wisnicki

The Ethics of Fiction

11. Slow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man: Don DeLillo and the Ethics of Fiction

Peter Boxall

12.Falling Man: Performing Fiction

Marie-Christine Leps

13. "Mysterium tremendum et fascinans": Don DeLillo, Rudolf Otto, and the Search for Numinous Experience

Peter Schneck

Coda

14. The DeLillo Era: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period

David Cowart

Notes:

Conference proceedings held at the University of Osnabruck from April 25-27, 2008

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9786612871832

9781472542809

1472542800

9781282871830

1282871838

9781441113733

1441113738

OCLC:

679689766