Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson
Autor Alex Houenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 sep 2002
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198187714
ISBN-10: 0198187718
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 137 x 215 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198187718
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 137 x 215 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
As Alex Houen argues in his important book, Terrorism and Modern Literature, it is time to look more closely at "how the figurative has been imbricated in terrorism's events and history in complex, material ways".
The chapter on Pound illustrates the theoretical sophistication and detailed research characteristics of Houen's book...anyone with a stake in the power of literature in the world will learn from this carefully reasoned and impeccably researched book.
Terrorism and Modern Literature resists generalized accounts of terrorism that either gloss over historical detail or ignore the impact of violence on people's lives.
[An] important book. anyone with a stake in the power of literature will learn from this carefully reasoned and impeccably researched book.
It is to its considerable credit that [Terrorism and Modern Literature] neither exploits nor manifestly fails the challenge of its own moment in the political and cultural history which its main title denominates. For this study constructs an account that fits events of [11 September 2001] as no exception, rather as an all-too-logical consequence and extension of pressures escalating in the intellectual and political culture of the preceding century. The steady exposition that Alex Houen conducts of developments in particular in the scientific thinking of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries offers an illuminating, useful heuristic for the growing dominance of the extreme-case option as a means of effecting political (usually 'anarchist') agendas.
[A] timely and challenging book. ambitious and scholarly, encouraging new readings of the cultural impact of terrorism, the media's complicity, and the ways in which responses to political violence have necessitated new literary approaches. compelling and original.
Analysis of terrorism must attend to the interplay between representation and reality because all that most of us will ever know about it will be mediated. A major virtue of Alex Houen's ambitious book lies in its insistence on this issue.
...timely and very interesting book...
... intriguing and timely book.
The chapter on Pound illustrates the theoretical sophistication and detailed research characteristics of Houen's book...anyone with a stake in the power of literature in the world will learn from this carefully reasoned and impeccably researched book.
Terrorism and Modern Literature resists generalized accounts of terrorism that either gloss over historical detail or ignore the impact of violence on people's lives.
[An] important book. anyone with a stake in the power of literature will learn from this carefully reasoned and impeccably researched book.
It is to its considerable credit that [Terrorism and Modern Literature] neither exploits nor manifestly fails the challenge of its own moment in the political and cultural history which its main title denominates. For this study constructs an account that fits events of [11 September 2001] as no exception, rather as an all-too-logical consequence and extension of pressures escalating in the intellectual and political culture of the preceding century. The steady exposition that Alex Houen conducts of developments in particular in the scientific thinking of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries offers an illuminating, useful heuristic for the growing dominance of the extreme-case option as a means of effecting political (usually 'anarchist') agendas.
[A] timely and challenging book. ambitious and scholarly, encouraging new readings of the cultural impact of terrorism, the media's complicity, and the ways in which responses to political violence have necessitated new literary approaches. compelling and original.
Analysis of terrorism must attend to the interplay between representation and reality because all that most of us will ever know about it will be mediated. A major virtue of Alex Houen's ambitious book lies in its insistence on this issue.
...timely and very interesting book...
... intriguing and timely book.