...In Mao II (1991), acclaimed writer Bill Gray laments that “what terrorists gain, novelists lose. The degree to which they influence mass consciousness is the extent of our decline as shapers of sensibility and thought” (157). That novel also chronicles a profound anxiety about...

... how he chooses each word of each sentence according to its sound, shape, and resonance; about how he types each paragraph on its own sheet of typewriter paper, so that his novels are the slow accumulation of written images surrounded by white space. In a piece cut from publication of his 1993 Paris...

...Don DeLillo’s fiction attends to the irony of our media ecology, in which the saturation of archived, televisual, and digital media fails to make cogent the paradigmatic events of the postwar period. Novels such as White Noise, Underworld, Cosmopolis, and Point Omega...

...Great Jones Street, Don DeLillo’s 1973 novel about fictional rock star Bucky Wunderlick, features one of DeLillo’s most lyrical, elegiac descriptions of how a “telephone that’s disconnected, deprived of its sources, becomes in time an intriguing piece of sculpture. … The fact...

...The commodity principle of what Guy Debord called “society of the spectacle” has preoccupied Don DeLillo’s writing for decades. One of the main functions of the spectacle is its mediation through images and a slow but persistent deepening of isolation and alienation. In his late novels, DeLillo...

... Morandi Giorgio still life ‘Baader Meinhof’ death Osteen Mark ‘In the Ruins of the Future’ World Trade Center Gallery Space Looking Museum DeLillo Novels Short stories Life Death The gallery as represented in Don DeLillo’s work will seem familiar to many. He captures the mundane...

...-Saharan African universities Sub-Saharan African libraries Sub-Saharan African publishing ‘Kenya’ novels Euro-Kenyan memoirs Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo F. R. and Q. D. Leavis Diasporic sub-Saharan African novelists On 28 June 2016, the New York Times Book Review published its first...

...This chapter explores why women were by and large excluded as producers of cultural products during the Iran Iraq war, despite the state’s ‘progressive’ discourses and the immense and unprecedented growth of the novel during this period under state patronage. It argues that due to a combination...

... plantation novel traditions, the dandy figure's cultural and sexual decadence threatens colonial aristocracy. The chapter suggests that a common merger of aesthetics and proactive reform links the Anglo-Irish big house and Southern plantation novel literary traditions from their inception. Burke Edmund...

...This book explores Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels. It analyses Woolf's reading and writing practices via her essays, diaries and reading notebooks, and presents chronological studies of eight of her novels...

... of Lawrence's novels and his two books about him: Reminiscences of D. H. Lawrence and Son of Woman are examined in this chapter. The encoded allusions to Lawrence's sexual difficulties in Son of Woman contributed to Murry's notoriety because of their allusions to Lawrence's...

...This chapter continues the discussion of social variables that elucidate Egyptian identity, focusing on novels. Four novels are analyzed in detail: Qindīl Umm Hāshim (‘The saint's lamp’) (1944), al-Ḥubb fī al-manfá (‘Love in exile’) (1995), Awrāq al-narjis...

...This chapter examines the relationship between history, storytelling, and community as it is presented in some of Brown's later novels: Beside the Ocean of Time, Vinland, The Golden Bird and Time in a Red Coat. It shows...

...This book examines types of political and literary disruption. Between 1880 and 1915, a range of writers exploited terrorism's political shocks for their own artistic ends. Drawing on late-Victorian ‘dynamite novels’ by authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Greer and Robert Thynne, radical...

...This chapter studies British writers' inherited racialist traditions, revealing that some writers during the war were forced to choose other jobs when they started writing sympathetic novels for Jews and gypsies. It then looks at stereotyping, using Jews as the main characters in children's stories...

...This introductory chapter discusses Walter Scott and his works, which draw not only on the Scottish language, but also on many European languages. It studies the extent Scott's novels serve as a medium of meaning created from the references to other texts and the relationship between his sources...

...This essay tells the story of adaptations of Macbeth and Hamlet as novels which the author wrote with David Hewson for Audible, how they came to be, and how people responded to them. It reflects upon questions of authorship, collaboration and cultural ownership...

...The concept of the ‘public sphere’, coined by Jürgen Habermas, interestingly problematises the relationship between the literary and the political. For him, the emergence of the novel, the rise of political journalism, and the professionalisation of the critic transformed print communication from...

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...This chapter discusses the ways in which al-Saqr writes about war and violence in most of his other novels. A comparison of two texts that deal with the consequences of the long war with Iran, Bayt ‘ala nahr Dijla (‘A House on the Tigris’, written in the early 1990s, but published...