Bret Easton Ellis : underwriting the contemporary / Georgina Colby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Colby, Georgina.

Series:

American literature readings in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ellis, Bret Easton--Criticism and interpretation.

Ellis, Bret Easton.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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.

Contents:

1 Missing Persons: Melancholy as Symptom in Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction and The Informers 23

2 An Inner Critique: Commodity Fetishism, Systemic Violence, and the Abstract Mutilated Subject in American Psycho 59

3 Cloning the Nineties: Cultural Amnesia, Terrorism, and Contemporary Iconoclasm in Glamomma 95

4 Twenty-First-Century Gothic (or post-9/11 Fatalism): Self-Parody, Reification, and the Becoming Real of Cultural and Authorial Fictions in Lunar Park 131.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-220) and index.

ISBN:

9780230116986

0230116981

OCLC:

697266869