Bret Easton Ellis : Underwriting the Contemporary
by
G. Colby
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
ISBN-10
0230116981
ISBN-13
9780230116986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 9th, 2011
Print length
228 Pages
Weight
430 grams
Dimensions
14.60 x 21.80 x 2.00 cms
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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.
One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary provides an extended analysis of Ellis''s works to argue that his fiction, through the technique of underwriting, offers a new politics of literature. Dealing with his entire body of work to date, from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms, the study provides original readings of the writer''s equivocal engagement with American culture. Reading Ellis''s novels in relation to contemporary political, philosophical and aesthetic concerns, Colby recasts him as a social critic and a subversive literary figure who enables us to think differently about the cultural climates of the 1980s, 1990s, and the first decade of the twenty-first century.
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