Versluys, Kristiaan.

Out of the blue September 11 and the novel / [electronic resource] : Kristiaan Versluys. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2009. - x, 226 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

American melancholia : Don DeLillo's Falling man -- Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers : the politics of trauma -- A rose is not a rose is not a rose : history and language in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud and incredibly close -- Exorcising the ghost : irony and spectralization in Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the world -- September 11 and the other.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780231520331 (electronic bk.)




American fiction--History and criticism.--21st century
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in literature.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
Psychic trauma in literature.


Electronic books.

PS374.S445 / V47 2009

809.3/935873931