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Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary

By Georgina Colby (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29776-4, 978-0-230-33916-3
DOI
10.1057/9780230339163
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5439000 bytes)
Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition
1
Pages
XI, 228\237
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
North American Literature;Twentieth-Century Litera

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.

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