{"product_id":"stock-characters-in-911-fiction-9781433149405","title":"Stock Characters in 911 Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStock Characters in 9\/11 Fiction \u003c\/i\u003econsiders fictional work of the time subsequent to the attacks. The book develops and investigates models of stock characters in 9\/11 fiction who promote the trauma meme within a narrative arc of tragedy; the conceptual evolution of trauma and media as thematic arcs is interpreted within specific 9\/11 novels and in correspondence with other terrorist fiction. The almost exclusively male stock character protagonists include the male homosocial perpetrator and the tightrope walker. Among the more recent authors discussed are Amy Waldman and Thomas Pynchon, whose novels illustrate the way characters inhabit media models, rather than, as previously thought, using media for disseminating terrorist events and messaging. Other featured writers include Bernhard Schlink, Don DeLillo, Claire Messud, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Neill, and Colum McCann. \u003ci\u003eStock Characters in 9\/11 Fiction \u003c\/i\u003eis a valuable text for scholars of 9\/11 fiction, as well as for profes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – Introduction – Homosocial Character Dynamics in Bernhard Schlink’s \u003ci\u003eThe Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e – Revisiting the Image of the Falling Man in Novels, Television and Film – Self-subtraction from the System: The Sleeper Cell in Claire Messud’s \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor’s Children\u003c\/i\u003e – Limitations of the Hyper-rationalist in Ian McEwan’s \u003ci\u003eSaturday\u003c\/i\u003e – Gambling and Postcolonial Games of Risk in Joseph O’Neill’s \u003ci\u003eNetherland\u003c\/i\u003e – From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Trauma Meme Transformed in Colum McCann’s \u003ci\u003eLet the Great World Spin\u003c\/i\u003e – Media Defining Terrorism in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s \u003ci\u003eThe Assignment\u003c\/i\u003e, Amy Waldman’s \u003ci\u003eThe Submission \u003c\/i\u003eand Thomas Pynchon’s \u003ci\u003eBleeding Edge\u003c\/i\u003e – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039626264919,"sku":"9781433149405","price":62.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433149405.jpg?v=1750944298","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stock-characters-in-911-fiction-9781433149405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}