Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary

By Georgina Colby

Book Overview

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349297763
• ISBN13: 9781349297764
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"