| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages) |
| Series |
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
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American literature readings in the 21st century.
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| Contents |
Underwriting the Contemporary -- Missing Persons: Melancholy As Symptom in Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction and The Informers -- An Inner Critique: Commodity Fetishism, Systemic Violence and the Abstract Mutilated Subject in American Psycho -- Cloning the Nineties: Cultural Amnesia, Terrorism and Contemporary Iconoclasm in Glamorama -- 21st Century Gothic (or Post-9/11 Fatalism): Self-Parody, Reification and the Becoming Real of Cultural and Authorial Fictions in Lunar Park -- The Politics of Exposure: Unsafe Lines and Narratives of Conflict in Imperial Bedrooms |
| Summary |
"This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary culture, which offers new paths of understanding and ways of critiquing the contemporary author's place in the relations of production"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index |
| Subject |
Ellis, Bret Easton -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Ellis, Bret Easton fast |
| Subject |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- American English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230339163 |
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0230339166 |
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9781349297764 |
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1349297763 |
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