Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 write by Christina Cavedon. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11, Christina Cavedon frames her examination of 9/11 fiction, especially Jay McInerney’s The Good Life and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, with a thorough discussion of what US reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 disclose about American culture. Offering a comparative reading of pre- and post-9/11 literary, public, and academic discourses, she deconstructs the still commonly held belief that cultural repercussions of the attacks primarily testify to a cultural trauma in the wake of the collectively witnessed media event. She innovatively re-interprets discourses to be symptomatic of a malaise which had afflicted American culture already prior to 9/11 and can best be approached with melancholia as an analytical concept.
Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies
Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies write by Julia Straub. This book was released on 2016-05-10. Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of ‘influence,’ transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of multi-layered historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized these traditions since colonial times. This handbook brings together articles that summarize some of the crucial transatlantic concepts, debates and topics. The contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history, literary movements, individual authors as well as genres from a transatlantic perspective, combining theoretical insight with textual analysis.
American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks
American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks write by Paul Arras. This book was released on 2024-06-15. American Television’s Live Coverage of the 9/11 Attacks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News, arguing that television coverage shaped the cultural meaning, collective memory, and language of 9/11 in ways that continue to resonate throughout American culture.
The quiet contemporary American novel
The quiet contemporary American novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The quiet contemporary American novel write by Rachel Sykes. This book was released on 2017-12-01. The quiet contemporary American novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the concept of ‘quiet’ – an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles – and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. In doing so, it makes two critical interventions. Firstly, it maps the neglected history of quiet fictions, arguing that from Hester Prynne to Clarissa Dalloway, from Bartleby to William Stoner, the Western tradition is filled with quiet characters. Secondly, it asks what it means for a novel to be quiet and how we might read for quiet in an American literary tradition that critics so often describe as noisy. Examining recent works by Marilynne Robinson, Teju Cole and Ben Lerner, among others, the book argues that quiet can be a multi-faceted state of existence, one that is communicative and expressive in as many ways as noise but filled with potential for radical discourse by its marginalisation as a mode of expression.
Romancing the Zombie
Romancing the Zombie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romancing the Zombie write by Ashley Szanter. This book was released on 2017-10-20. Romancing the Zombie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The zombie--popular culture's undead darling--shows no signs of stopping. But as it develops to suit changing audience tastes, its characteristics transform. This collection of new essays examines the latest incarnation, the romantic zombie, a re-humanized monster we want to help, heal and connect with rather than destroy. The authors discuss our increasingly sympathetic view of the reanimated dead as more than physical bodies devoid of life and personality. Their essays cover a range of topics, including audience obsession with Apocalyptic love; the problem of a kinder, gentler undead; the millennial reinvention of the "sexy zombie"; and "uncanny valley romance."
