Terrorism and Modern Literature From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson [Paperback]

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 Literatureoffers 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.

Introduction
1. Joseph Conrad: Entropolitics and the Sense of Terror
2. Wyndham Lewis: Literary Strikes and Allegorical Assaults
3. Ezra Pound: Anti-Semitism, Segregationism, and the 'Arsenal of Live Thought'
4. Walter Abish: Plotting Everyday Terror
Conclusion: Re-Placing Terror: Poetic Mappings of Northern Ireland's 'Troubles'