!!Kristiaan Versluys - Selected publications \\ __Books:__ \\ *The Poet and the City, Günter Narr Verl, 1989 , 249 pp\\ *Neo Realism in American Fiction, Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, 1992, 210 pp.\\ *The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance, VU Press, Amsterdam, 1995, 384 pp\\ *Out of the Blue. September 11 and the Novel, Columbia UP, 2009, 226 pp. \\ __Papers:__ \\ *“’Nakedness’ or Realism in Updike’s Early Short Stories,” The Cambridge Companion to John Updike , ed. Stacey Olster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 29-42. \\ *“9/11 as the End of Irony: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World ,” CinematoGraphies: Fictional Strategies and Visual Discourses in 1990s New York City , eds. Günter Lenz, Dorothea Löbbermann, Karl-Heinz Magister (Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, 2006), pp. 45-73. \\ *“Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers : 9/11 and the Representation of Trauma,” Modern Fiction Studies , 52, No. 4 (2006), pp. 980-1004. \\ *“Do We Have to Ditch the Canon,” Reading without Maps? Cultural Landmarks in a Post-Canonical Age , ed. Christophe Den Tandt (Frankfurt: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 33-40. \\ *“ Ragtime and Jazz : Recapturing New York’s Golden Age,” Public Space, Private Lives: Race, Gender, Class and Citizenship in New York, 1890-1929 , eds. William Boelhower and Anna Scacchi (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2004), pp. 305-311. \\ *"Saul Bellow," Engelstalige literatuur na 1945. Deel 2: Proza. Andere Continenten , eds. Elke D'Hoker and Ortwin de Graef (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), pp. 51-67. \\ *"Philip Roth," Engelstalige literatuur na 1945. Deel 2: Proza. Andere Continenten , eds. Elke D'Hoker and Ortwin de Graef (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), pp. 183-198. \\ *“New York as a Maze: Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold (1992),” Postmodern New York City: Transfiguring Spaces , eds. Günter H. Lenz and Utz Riese (Heidelberg: Winter Universitätsverlag, 2003), pp. 99-108.