Terrorism and Modern Literature: From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson

by Alex Houen

Overview

Looking at 100 years of terrorism in print—from Conrad on Anarchism in the 1880s to Seamus Heaney and Ciaran Carson on the "Troubles" in the 1980s—Terrorism and Modern Literature offers a fresh perspective on terrorism's cultural aftermath. In this first extensive study of the phenomenon, Alex Houen explores the historical and political dimensions of writing terrorism in the modern world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198187714
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/07/2002
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Joseph Conrad: Entropolitics and the Sense of Terror2. Wyndham Lewis: Literary Strikes and Allegorical Assaults3. Ezra Pound: Anti-Semitism, Segregationism, and the 'Arsenal of Live Thought'4. Walter Abish: Plotting Everyday TerrorConclusion: Re-Placing Terror: Poetic Mappings of Northern Ireland's 'Troubles'