Beschreibung

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.

Georgina Colby is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.

Autorentext
Georgina Colby is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt
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

Produktinformationen

Titel:	Bret Easton Ellis
Untertitel:	Underwriting the Contemporary
Autor:	G. Colby
EAN:	9780230339163
ISBN:	978-0-230-33916-3
Digitaler Kopierschutz:	Wasserzeichen
Format:	E-Book (pdf)
Herausgeber:	Palgrave Macmillan
Genre:	Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Anzahl Seiten:	228
Veröffentlichung:	15.08.2011
Jahr:	2011
Untertitel:	Englisch
Dateigrösse:	5.2 MB