Novels of the contemporary extreme
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
c2006.
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| Col·lecció: | Continuum literary studies.
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Taula de continguts:
- Part I. The Americas. "Right here in nowheres": American psycho and violence's critique / Naomi Mandel
- Telling doubles and literal-minded reading in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama / Henrik Skov Nielsen
- Posthumous voice and residual presence in Don DeLillo's The body artist / Mikko Keskinen
- A post-apocalyptic world: the excremental, abject female warriors of Josée Yvon / Paula Ruth Gilbert with Colleen Lester
- On the impossibility of being contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle / Martine Delvaux
- Media-portrayed violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja / Jason Summers
- Part II. Europe and the Middle East. Sadomasochism, castration and rape: Richard Morgiève's nightmare theater of primal scenes / Ralph Schoolcraft
- Dantec's Inferno / Lawrence R. Schehr
- Michel Houellebecq: a fin de siècle for the twentieth century / Sabine van Wesemael
- Beyond the extreme: Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the world / Alain-Philippe Durand
- Amélie Nothomb's dialectic of the sublime and the grotesque / Martine Guyot-Bender
- Violence biting its own tail: Martin Amis's Yellow dog / Jean-Michel Ganteau
- Beauty and death as simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caídos del cielo and El hombre que inventó Manhattan / Kathryn Everly
- Sex, drugs and violence in Lucía Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas / Catherine Bourland Ross
- On human parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli extreme / Adia Mendelson-Maoz.