Bret Easton Ellis [electronic resource] : Underwriting the Contemporary /
Colby, G.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Series page; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Underwriting the Contemporary; 1 Missing Persons: Melancholy as Symptom inLess Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction andThe Informers; 2 An Inner Critique: Commodity Fetishism,Systemic Violence, and the Abstract MutilatedSubject in American Psycho; 3 Cloning the Nineties: Cultural Amnesia, Terrorism,and Contemporary Iconoclasm in Glamorama; 4 Twenty-First- Century Gothic (or post- 9/11 Fatalism):Self- Parody, Reification, and the Becoming Real ofCultural and Authorial Fictions in Lunar Park
Coda: The Politics of Exposure: Unsafe Lines andNarratives of Conflict in Imperial BedroomsNotes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.
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.
Ellis, Bret Easton
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Ethnology.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Fiction.
Cultural Anthropology.