Reading Chuck Palahniuk: American Monsters and Literary Mayhem
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Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk's texts, contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from Fight Club through Snuff, as well as his nonfiction, this volume will be valuable to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary literature. Book Cover Title Copyright Contents Permissions Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Genres, Structures, and Modes 1 Chuck Palahniuk and the Semiotics of Personal Doom: The Novelist as Escape Artist 2 Destruction and the Discourse of Deformity: Invisible Monsters and the Ethics of Atrocity 3 I Am Marla’s Monstrous Wound: Fight Club and The Gothic 4 ‘This Theatre of Mass Destruction’: Medieval Morality and Jacobean Tragedy in Palahniuk’s Novels 5 On Mutilation: The Sublime Body of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fiction 6 ‘This is what passes for free will’: Chuck Palahniuk’s Postmodern Gothic 7 ‘Where you’re supposed to be’: Apostrophe and Apocalypse in Chuck Palahniuk Part II Politics, Cultures, and Philosophies 8 With Us or Against Us: Chuck Palahniuk’s 9/11 9 Reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor and Haunted as a Critique of ‘The Culture Industry’ 10 The Politics of Boredom: Punk, the Situationist International and Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant 11 The Phony ‘Martyrdom of Saint Me’: Choke, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Problem of Postmodern Narcissistic Nihilism 12 The Politics of Voice in Palahniuk’s Lullaby 13 Nihilism and Buddhism in a Blender: The Religion of Chuck Palahniuk 14 True Stories and Beaded Necklaces: Fandom and Chuck Palahniuk’s Writing as Ritual 15 Blood on the Bookstore Floor: Chuck Palahniuk and the Case of the Fainting Reader Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
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