Graphic Violence explores the role of assassination in contemporary historiographic fiction. The introduction begins by outlining the principal questions, and theoretical concerns, of the project. What kind of crisis does the historiographic endeavor entail for fiction? How does…
This thesis considers the status of the "end" in the literature of the late twentieth century. The very proliferation of announcements on the end (of truth, man, history, the world) has undermined to some extent the force of the apocalypse. In an age where "the sense of an endin…
The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders and Terrorism in American Postwar Literature and Film explores the historical re-articulations of paranoia around the problems of borders and terrorism. The introduction discusses the first English definition of "paranoia" in 1811—"alienat…
Before any literature could be examined for this study, a definition of terrorism had to be considered. While innumerable texts on terrorism are in print, most are political, sociological, or criminological studies of the phenomenon. The few texts on terrorism in literature that…
If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to Introducing Don DeLillo. Placing the author's work in a cultural context, this is the first b…