Name: plotting terror: novelists and terrorists in contemporary fiction (en Inglés)
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Author: Scanlan, Margaret
ISBN: 9780813920313

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plotting terror: novelists and terrorists in contemporary fiction (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Margaret Scanlan

Editorial

University of Virginia Press

Año

2001

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

199

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.7x15.9x2.1 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN

0813920310

ISBN13

9780813920313

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Literatura: historia y crítica

plotting terror: novelists and terrorists in contemporary fiction (en Inglés)

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Is literature dangerous? In the romantic view, writers were rebels--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of mankind"--poised to change the world. In relation to twentieth-century literature, however, such a view becomes suspect. By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, Plotting Terror 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 Dürrenmatt, Doris Lessing, and Don DeLillo imagine a contemporary writer's encounter with terrorists as a test of the old alliance between writer and revolutionary.After considering the possibility that televised terrorism is replacing the novel, or that writing, as contemporary theory would have it, is itself a form of violence, Scanlan asks whether the revolutionary impulse itself is dying--in politics as much as in literature. Her analyses take the reader on a fascinating exploration of the relationship between actual bombs and stories about bombings, from the modern world to its electronic representation, and from the exercise of political power to the fiction writer's power in the world.