Novels of the Contemporary Extreme

, by Durand, Alain-Philippe; Mandel, Naomi

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ISBN: 9780826490889 | 0826490883
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Copyright: 6/23/2006

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Acknowledgements

vii

List of Contributors

viii

Introduction

(8)

Alain-Philippe Durand

Naomi Mandel

Part I The Americas

``Right Here in Nowheres'': American Psycho and Violence's Critique

(11)

Naomi Mandel

Telling Doubles and Literal-Minded Reading in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama

(11)

Henrik Skov Nielsen

Posthumous Voice and Residual Presence in Don DeLillo's The Body Artist

(10)

Mikko Keskinen

A Post-Apocalyptic World: The Excremental, Abject Female Warriors of Josee Yvon

(12)

Paula Ruth Gilbert

Colleen Lester

On the Impossibility of Being Contemporary in Nelly Arcan's Folle

(11)

Martine Delvaux

Media-Portrayed Violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja

(13)

Jason Summers

Part II Europe and the Middle East

Sadomasochism, Castration and Rape: Richard Morgieve's Nightmare Theater of Primal Scenes

(12)

Ralph Schoolcraft

Dantec's Inferno

(11)

Lawrence R. Schehr

Michel Houellebecq: A Fin de Siecle for the Twentieth Century

100

(9)

Sabine van Wesemael

Beyond The Extreme: Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World

109

(12)

Alain-Philippe Durand

Amelie Nothomb's Dialectic of the Sublime and the Grotesque

121

(11)

Martine Guyot-Bender

Violence Biting its Own Tail: Martin Amis's Yellow Dog

132

(11)

Jean-Michel Ganteau

Beauty and Death as Simulacra in Ray Loriga's Caidos del cielo and El hombre que invento Manhattan

143

(10)

Kathryn Everly

Sex, Drugs and Violence in Lucia Etxebarria's Amor, curiosidad, Prozac y dudas

153

(10)

Catherine Bourland Ross

On Human Parts: Orly Castel-Bloom and the Israeli Extreme

163

(12)

Adia Mendelson-Maoz

Index

175

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