Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction

Peter Schneck is Professor (Chair) for American Literature and Culture at Osnabruck University, Germany. Philipp Schweighauser is Assistant Professor and Head of American and General Literatures at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (UP Florida, 2006) and the co-editor of Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry (MLA, 2007).

• Introduction; 1. The Wake of Terror: Don DeLillo's "In the Ruins of the Future," "Baader-Meinhof," and Falling Man Linda S. Kauffman; 2. Grieving and Memory in Don DeLillo's Falling Man Silvia Caporale Bizzini; 3. Collapsing Identities: The Representation and Imagination of the Terrorist in Falling Man Sascha Pohlmann; Writers, Terrorists, and the Masses; 4. 6,500 Weddings and 2,750 Funerals: Mao II, Falling Man, and the Mass Effect; Mikko Keskinen; 5. Influence and Self-Representation: Don DeLillo's Artists and Terrorists in Postmodern Mass Society Leif Grossinger; 6. The Art of Terror--the Terror of Art: DeLillo's Still Life of 9/11, Giorgio Morandi, Gerhard Richter, and Performance Art Julia Apitzsch Don DeLillo and Johan Grimonprez; 7. Grimonprez's Remix Eben Wood; 8. Dial T for Terror: Don DeLillo's Mao II and Johan Grimonprez' Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Martyn Colebrook Deathward and Other Plots; 9. Terror, Asceticism, and Epigrammatic Writing in Don DeLillo's Fiction Paula Martin Salvan; 10. The End of Resolution? Reflections on the Ethics of Closure in Don DeLillo's Detective Plots Philipp Schweighauser and Adrian S. Wisnicki;The Ethics of Fiction; 11. Slow Man, Dangling Man, Falling Man: Don DeLillo and the Ethics of Fiction Peter Boxall; 12.Falling Man: Performing Fiction Marie-Christine Leps; 13. "Mysterium tremendum et fascinans": Don DeLillo, Rudolf Otto, and the Search for Numinous Experience Peter Schneck; 14. The DeLillo Era: Literary Generations in the Postmodern Period.