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Studies in the Novel articles from September 2004
An international literary quarterly that publishes literary criticism and scholarship on the novel. Includes essays on well-known and lesser-known novelists of all periods and countries. Contents include essays, reviews of recent books on novels and novel
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Studies in the Novel archives from September 2004
Introduction: the terror! The terror.
September 22, 2004...
Terror and Horror are so far opposite,
that the first expands the soul and
awakens the faculties to a high degree of life;
the other contracts, freezes, and nearly annihilates them.
--Anne Radcliffe, "On the Supernatural in...
Spelling it out: narrative typologies of terror.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Midway through Don DeLillo's Mao II, failed novelist Bill Gray expresses what has become a kind of anthem in the critical attitudes toward terrorism and the anti-aesthetic it represents:
For some time now I've had the feeling that...
Anil's Ghost and terrorism's time.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... In the last chapter of Michael Ondaatje Anil's Ghost, three Sri Lankans blow up a 120-foot statue of Buddha that had gazed over neighboring farmland for "several generations" (299). Although Anil's Ghost was published a year before the Taliban...
Spectacular spectacular!: Underworld and the production of terror.
September 22, 2004... The spectacle of terrorism forces the terrorism of spectacle upon us.
Jean Baudrillard
"In times of terror," Walter Benjamin writes in "The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire," "everyone is something of a conspirator" (40)....
A kink in the system: terrorism and the comic mystery novel.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... We live in fictitious times... where we have fictitious election results that elects [sic] a fictitious president... sending us to war for fictitious reasons.
--Michael Moore's Oscar acceptance speech
There is in our time an...
Violent acts, volatile words: Kathy Acker's terrorist aesthetic.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... A day is a blank sheet of paper. Bound up over a year, these sheets make a book which bears the title The Past and contains no lessons for the future. --Cedric von Halacz, explosive terrorist in a psychological test (1)
Only process...
Two's a crowd: Mao II, Coke II, and the politics of terrorism in Don DeLillo.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... I keep thinking, without too much supporting evidence, that images have something to do with crowds. An image is a crowd in a way, a smear of impressions. Images tend to draw people together, create mass identity. --Don DeLillo, "The Image and...
Auguries of power: prophecy and violence in The Satanic Verses.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... "All India is full of holy men stammering gospels in strange tongues; shaken and consumed in the fires of their own zeal; dreamers, babblers, and visionaries: as it has been from the beginning and will continue to the end," predicts the...
Reshaping ideologies: leftists as terrorists/terrorists as leftists in DeLillo's novels.
September 22, 2004... Major national newspapers occasionally feature a story about a fugitive, sixties radical who surfaces after hiding underground for a couple of decades. These cases briefly capture headlines and even spawn a flurry of imitative popular TV show...
Novel spaces and taking place(s) in the wake of September 11.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... A trauma that is so real it can only be experienced as a kind of fiction. This is how prominent theorists of postmodernism such as Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek have, in part, recently characterized the 2001 September 11 terrorist attacks....
(Ex)communicating Palestine: from best-selling terrorist fiction to real-life personal accounts.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... Introduction
Our thinking and experience as individuals or as part of a collective identity are to a large extent shaped by fictional and non-fictional stories, both those that we ourselves make and the stories that others make about us,...
Clymer, Jeffory A. America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... CLYMER, JEFFORY A. America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii + 277 pp., illus. $45.00.
It would seem that, to many Americans, terrorism is a...