{"product_id":"after-the-fall-9780470657928","title":"After the Fall","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter the Fall\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eA common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that everything has changed. \u003ci\u003eAfter the Fall\u003c\/i\u003e presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9\/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray  widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature  reveals the widespread belief among novelists, dramatists, and poets  as well as the American public at large  that in the post-9\/11 world they are all somehow living after the fall. He carefully considers how many writers, faced with what they see as the end of their world, have retreated into the seductive pieties of home, hearth, and family; and how their works are informed by the equally seductive myth of American exceptionalism. As a counterbalance, Gray also discusses in depth the many writings that get it right  transnational and genuinely crossbred works that resist the opp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There an amazing richness of the material Richard Gray covers in. . . After the Fall: American Literature Since 9\/11After the Fall is skillfully structured and convincingly argued.”  (\u003ci\u003eHungarian Journal of English and American  Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 October 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e \"Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" (Choice, 1 January 2012)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 After the Fall 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Imagining Disaster 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Imagining Crisis 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Imagining the Transnational 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Imagining the Crisis in Drama and Poetry 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorks Cited 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 211\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402391363927,"sku":"9780470657928","price":28.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470657928.jpg?v=1730480258","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/after-the-fall-9780470657928","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}