Screen LibraryFalling after 9/11 : crisis in American art and literature /
"Falling After 9/11 provides close readings of post 9/11 figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Richard Drew's famous ph...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Falling After 9/11 provides close readings of post 9/11 figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center. Considered from the perspective of trauma theory, Falling After 9/11 argues that the apparent failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in fact points to a larger problem in the national tradition: the problem of reference--of how to refer to falling--in "Falling After 9-11 provides close readings of post 9-11 figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Briegbeder's Windows on the World, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center. Considered from the perspective of trauma theory, Falling After 9-11 argues that the apparent failure of these texts to register fully the trauma of the day in fact points to a larger problem in the national tradition: the problem of referen |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 158 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-156) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781441122414 (HB) : 1441122419 (HB) |
| Index Number: | PS231 |
| CLC: | I712.065 |
| Call Number: | I712.065/P893 |
| Contents: | Gravity, Gravitas, Grave: How to Refer to Falling -- Beyond the Literal: The Falling Man and Moral Failing -- Journalism's Falling Man: On Documentation and Truth-Telling -- Don DeLillo's Performance Art: Failure Bears Witness to Falling -- Poetics of Falling: The Lyrical Laments of Kennedy and Seuss -- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Historical Reverberation and Scientific Invention in Jonathan Safran Foer's 9/11 Iconotext. |