Ethics and desire in the wake of postmodernism
Subtitle: contemporary satire
By: Graham Matthews
Series: Continuum literary studies
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441140074; 9781441134394
Subjects: Desire in literature; Theory; Postmodernism (Literature); History and criticism; Satire; Ethics in literature; Fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: You do an awfully good impression of yourself: fear and uncertainty in Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park; title: Nihilism and the sublime in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club; title: Revolution and the multitude in J.G. Ballard's Millennium People; title: Evil is to morality as magnolia is to paint: ethics and aesthetics in Will Self's Dorian: an imitation; title: Sex tourism and the politics of enjoyment in Michel Houellebecq's Platform; title: Feminism, satire and critique in the work of Tama Janowitz.