Bret Easton Ellis (eBook, PDF)

American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park
Redaktion: Mandel, Naomi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005). Taking as its starting-point American Psycho's seismic impact on contemporary literature and culture, the volume establishes Ellis' centrality to the scholarship and teaching of contemporary American literature in the U.S. and in Europe. Contributors examine the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to this controversial writer, provide an overview of growing critical material on Ellis and review the literary and artistic significance of his recent work. Exploring key issues including violence, literature, reality, reading, identity, genre, and gender, the contributors together provide a critical re-evaluation of Ellis, exploring how he has impacted, challenged, and transformed contemporary literature in the U.S. and abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441162144
• Artikelnr.: 38301420

Autorenporträt

Naomi Mandel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface \ Introduction \ Part I: American Psycho (1991) \ Introduction \ 1. Violence
Ethics
and the Rhetoric of Decorum in American Psycho
Michael P. Clark (University of California
Irvine
USA) \ 2. American Psycho
Hamlet
and Existential Psychosis
Alex E. Blazer (Georgia College and State University
Milledgeville
USA) \ 3. 'The Soul of this Man is His Clothes': Violence and Fashion in American Psycho
Elana Gomel (Tel-Aviv University
Ramat-Aviv
Israel) \ Part II: Glamorama (1999) \ Introduction \ 4. "'It's Really Me': Intermediality and Constructed Identities in Glamorama"
Sonia Baelo-Allué (Universidad de Zaragoza
Spain) \ 5. The Unusual Suspects: Celebrity
Conspiracy
and Objective Violence in Glamorama
David Schmid (University at Buffalo
USA) \ 6. "Merely Political": Glam Terrorism and Celebrity Politics in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama
Arthur Redding (York University
Toronto
Canada) \ Part III: Lunar Park (2005) \ Introduction \ 7. "An awfully good impression": truth and testimony in Lunar Park
Jeff Karnicky (Drake University
Des Moines
USA) \ 8. What's in a name? Double exposures in Lunar Park
Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus University
Denmark) \ 9. Brand Ellis: celebrity authorship in Lunar Park
James Annesley (University of Newcastle upon Tyne
UK) \ Further Reading \ Notes on Contributors \ Index