Bret Easton Ellis
Subtitle: underwriting the contemporary
By: Georgina Colby
Series: American literature readings in the twenty-first century
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780230116986
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-220) and index.