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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Jonathan Safran"”.
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MOVING TOWARD UNCERTAINTY: TRAUMA AND COMMEMORATION IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE AND COLUM MCCANN’S LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
… two novels: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and the issues surrounding working through trauma and commemorating loss through the lens of trauma theory, ethics, and scholarship on commemoration. Chapter One examines Foer’s …
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MOVING TOWARD UNCERTAINTY: TRAUMA AND COMMEMORATION IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER’S EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE AND COLUM MCCANN’S LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
… two novels: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer and Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and the issues surrounding working through trauma and commemorating loss through the lens of trauma theory, ethics, and scholarship on commemoration. Chapter One examines Foer’s …
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The trauma aesthetic: (re)mediating absence, emptiness and nation in post-9/11 American film and literature
… 2007), Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005), Man in the Dark (Paul Auster, 2008) and The Road (Cormac McCarthy, 2006), and four films: A History of Violence (d. David Cronenberg, 2005), In the Valley of Elah (d. Paul Haggis, 2007), 25th Hour (d. Spike Lee, 2002) …
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Disaster's Culture of Utopia after 9/11 and Katrina: Fiction, Documentary, Memorial
… Claire Messud, Alissa Torres, Paul Auster, and Jonathan Safran Foer models a cosmopolitanism that repairs the self's relationship to the Other by allowing the Other an agency previously unavailable before 9/11. Chapter three examines how When the Levees Broke, Trouble the Water, Kamp Katrina, …
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… and the aspect of a rehabilitative community. Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a unique and stylistically-distinctive representation of the 9/11 event. Foer’s use of verbal avoidance strategies point to the utter confusion and grief of trauma victims. His use of …
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… and the aspect of a rehabilitative community. Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a unique and stylistically-distinctive representation of the 9/11 event. Foer’s use of verbal avoidance strategies point to the utter confusion and grief of trauma victims. His use of …
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The Level Game: Architectures of Play in American Fiction and Theory, 1968–2018
… works: Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes. Chapter five contrastingly explores the thematisation of digitality in fiction, where levels are used in a teleological sense to denote progress in video games and commercial gamification strategies. Chapter six …
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"The fullest possible account": Knowledge and Exceptionalism in Post-9/11 Literature
This dissertation examines the intertwined histories of science and American exceptionalism, contending that the September 11th attacks undermine the nation's sense of its scientific superiority and result in the creation of a body of 21st-century literature that explores the country's position as …
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The Anxiety of Expression : Word, Image and Sound in 9/11 Fiction
… of the research. The first chapter looks at Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) and Art Spiegelman’s comic In the Shadow of No Towers (2004). It argues that text and image exist in an uneasy relationship in these works, replicating both the lack of …