Stuff That Happened To Me: Visuelle Verfahren in Jonathan Safran Foers Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)

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  • Wanda Jakob

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5283/copas.77

Abstract

The essay is based on the manuscript for the presentation I gave at the symposium. It describes visual strategies in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close“ (2005), connecting them with their tradition in literature, showing the selfreflexivity of the text and providing a, if not the only, useful approach to analyzing them: as visualizations of trauma and at the same time as attempts to overcome the trauma by binding it in a narrative.

Author Biography

Wanda Jakob

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From 1998-2003 Wanda Jakob studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich) with a major in German Literature and minors in American and Portuguese Literature. Since 2003/2004 she is majoring in American Literature. Her M.A. will be completed in 2006 with a magisteral thesis on typographic strategies in modern and postmodern American Literature. Her focus of research includes: visuality and selfreflexivity in American Literature.

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Jakob, Wanda. “Stuff That Happened To Me: Visuelle Verfahren in Jonathan Safran Foers Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005)”. Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 6, Mar. 2012, doi:10.5283/copas.77.

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Vol. 6 (2005)

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