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Weissenberg, Clare. "This is not an exit : reading Bret Easton Ellis." Thesis, University of Essex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361020.

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Helm, Kimberly Anne. "Is everything disposable? Bret Easton Ellis, abortion, and consumer culture." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004643.

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von, Seth Oscar. "Psykopaten i garderoben : En queer läsning av Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-21456.

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The novel American Psycho was first published in 1991. It recieved harsh criticism and was viewed as a work of heterosexism, misogyny and pointless violence. Despite the criticism, the protagonist, a wealthy serial killer yuppie namned Patrick Bateman, fascinated the readers. He hides his monstrosity behind a façade of heteronormativity, but this essay shows that the norms in American Psycho are fragile. Batemans relationships are shallow, his identity is constructed out of traditional masculinitynorms and even though he’s homophobic there’s a homoerotic undertone in the text, as well as gothi

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Ettler, Justine. "The Best Ellis For Business: A Re-Examination Of The Mass Media Feminist Critique Of American Psycho." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10020.

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The Best Ellis For Business analyses the mass media feminist critique of Bret Easton Ellis’s third novel, American Psycho (1991), and employs this to challenge the dominant modes of reading Ellis’s work. The thesis identifies the major shifts in literary criticism about American Psycho, both journalistic and scholarly, and discusses them in relation to the novel’s problematic sexualisation of misogynistic violence. In particular, the neutralisation of the mass media feminist critique in scholarly literary criticism is questioned, then contextualised in terms of the backlash, and finally linked

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Roche, David. "L'imagination malsaine : Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch /." Paris : l'Harmattan, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb412407868.

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Silva, Luciano Cabral da. "The fourfold serial killer in Bret Easton Elliss American Psycho." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2015. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=8749.

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico<br>Patrick Bateman, o protagonista narrador do romance American Psycho (1991), de Bret Easton Ellis, confunde por ser rico, bonito e educado e, ao mesmo tempo, torturador, assassino e canibal. Mas esta personalidade antagônica não o torna singular. O que o particulariza são as quatro faces que ele apresenta ao longo de sua narrativa: (1) ele consome mercadorias e humanos, (2) compete para ter reconhecimento, (3) provoca horror por suas ações, e (4) não é um narrador confiável. Sendo um yuppie (termo popular usado nos Estados Unidos

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Andersson, Jim. "Psykopatfabriken : Maskulinitetskonstruktioner i Iain Banks The Wasp Factory och Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-302290.

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Alt, Constanze. "Zeitdiagnosen im Roman der Gegenwart Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, Michel Houellebecqs Elementarteilchen und die deutsche Gegenwartsliteratur." Berlin Trafo, 2009. http://d-nb.info/992353327/04.

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Weibels-Balthaus, Gregor. "The self in trouble: young adults in the urban consumer society of the 1980s in Janowitz, Ellis, and McInerney." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=976449706.

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Nabo, João Luís Brejo. "O escritor e o seu duplo em Bret Easton Ellis: uma contribuição para a análise do processo de auto-referencialidade no gótico norte-americano contemporâneo." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18409.

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A presente dissertação tem como objectivo contribuir para o estudo do fenómeno do Duplo, inserido no género Gótico Americano, na obra do escritor norte-americano contemporâneo Bret Easton Ellis, na tradição de Stevenson, Poe e Hawthorne, os primeiros a lançar os fundamentos desta temática nas suas obras. Assim, foram estudados os motivos que conduzem ao desenvolvimento do tema do Duplo nas produções ficcionais do autor seleccionado, tendo sido fundamental o seu estudo à luz das teorias psicanalíticas de Sigmund Freud e Otto Rank. Analisámos alguns dos autores anglo- americanos, que mais colabo

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Busonik, Stephen William. "Epistemic structuralism in the postmodern novel: The examples of William Gaddis, J. G. Ballard, and Bret Easton Ellis /." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487847309053231.

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Bengtsson, Tomas. "Självframställningens dilemma : En biografisk och tematisk undersökning av självframställningen i Bret Easton Ellis roman Lunar Park." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-191833.

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Annesley, James. "Blank fiction : culture, consumption and the contemporary American novel." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321347.

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Busonik, Stephen. "Epistemic structuralism in the postmodern novel : the examples of William Gaddis, J.G. Ballard, and Bret Easton Ellis /." Connect to resource, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1260971951.

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Hardie, Michael L. "Using Hamlet and Peter Pan: Family Issues, Ghosts, and Memory in Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2016. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2233.

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d'Hont, Coco. "Brutal bodies : exploring transgression through the fiction of Chuck Palahniuk, Poppy Z. Brite, and Bret Easton Ellis." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2016. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/59676/.

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This thesis explores how American transgressive fiction of the 1990s represents and interrogates transgressive processes in its extra-textual context. It shows in what ways transgressive fiction visualizes how transgression functions, not simply as a counter-cultural phenomenon, but more as a central social mechanism. The thesis makes four contributions. First, it critically assesses existing definitions of transgression as counter-cultural, instead conceptualizing transgression as a mechanism which (re)develops central social ideologies. The project traces how the transgression of ideological

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Busonik, Stephen. "Epistemic structuralism in the postmodern novel : the examples of William Gaddis, J. G. Ballard, and Bret Easton Ellis." The Ohio State University, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1260971951.

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Fredriksson, Sophia. "Abandon All Hope : An Analysis of American Psycho." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-6391.

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Wadström, Simon. "Anteckningar från en skyskrapa : En studie av Fjodor Dostojevskijs Anteckningar från ett källarhål och Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-150993.

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Lutton, Alison Mary. "Authorship and the production of literary value, 1982-2012 : Bret Easton Ellis, Paul Auster, J.T. LeRoy, and Tucker Max." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3aa64675-73a2-42a8-be24-cb75f034e9de.

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Definitions of celebrity authorship and material textuality at the turn of the twenty-first century have predominantly emphasised the implicitly negative aspects of contemporary developments in the literary marketplace. Particularly prominent are arguments that the practice of authorship has become subject to homogenisation by the matrix of celebrity in which successful writers are now expected to function; and, further, that the changing nature of texts themselves and the ways in which they are marketed is eroding the implicitly superior position traditionally held by literature in the cultur

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Leypoldt, Günter. "Casual silences : the poetics of minimal realism from Raymond Carver and the New Yorker School to Bret Easton Ellis /." Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb388753788.

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Simon, Alaina R. "Satire and Sympathy in American Psycho." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1355508133.

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Ferry, Peter. "Masculinity in Manhattan : reading hegemonic masculinity in selected novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Jed Rubenfeld." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601475.

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The study of men and masculinities has enjoyed steady progress over the last four decades within the fields of sociology, psychology, and cultural studies. It is only in the last ten to fifteen years that Masculinity Studies scholarship has begun to recognise the sociological value of literary masculinities. An area of research still in its infancy, this thesis sets out to address the lack of critical discussion on masculinity in both the fields of Masculinity Studies and American literary studies by presenting a case-study analysis of the selected works of Paul Auster, Don Delillo, Bret Easto

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Wagner, Annette. "Postmoderne im Adoleszenzroman der Gegenwart : Studien zu Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre und Alexa Hennig von Lange /." Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41147777t.

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Hawryluk, Lynda J., University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and of Communication Design and Media School. "Call waiting." THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Hawryluk_L.xml, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.

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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting'

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Wallbanks, Mark. "The vicissitudes of the authentic self: a literary mapping of the authentic self from John Milton's Paradise lost to Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama /Mark Wallbanks." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/364.

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Since the rise of individualism in the seventeenth century there has been increasing pressure on individuals to define themselves in the public eye. This has led to the recent phenomena of identity politics and self-branding. Yet how is one's true identity - if such a thing exists - ever expressed externally? How do individuals deal with the inner and outer aspects of identity? These are some of the issues which impinge upon the ethics of authenticity. This thesis investigates the development of the concept of the authentic self from its inception in the modern period to the postmodern. Throug

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Eigeartaigh, Aoileann N. "'I shop, therefore I am' : consumerism and the mass media in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1790.

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This thesis argues that consumerism and the mass media wield an unparalleled influence over contemporary North American society, and that these forces constitute the primary means through which identity is constituted. The historical and theoretical developments that have led to the foregrounding of these forces are outlined in the introduction - developments, it is argued, that are intrinsically connected to the social upheava1 that characterized America in the late 1960's and early 1970's, while their presence in and effects on the fiction of four contemporary North American writers - Thomas

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Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.

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This thesis examines the life and career of Bret Easton Ellis, and the influences of his work on the author's development as a writer. Part one encapsulates a novel written specifically for this thesis. 'Call waiting' is a harsh look at modern friendships, the role of work in these relationships and the proliferation of shallow communication through the advent of email. A critical reflection follows, examining the process that led to the novel's creation. Three specific areas are focussed on: the direct influence of Ellis' novel 'The rules of attraction' on the overall themes of 'Call waiting'

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Granger, Remy Maud. "Le roman posthumain." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030040.

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A travers l'analyse comparée des romans de Houellebecq, Dantec, Gibson et Ellis, cette thèse cherche à définir un nouveau genre littéraire transnational que j'appelle Le roman posthumain. L'accès à l'écriture des romanciers posthumains correspond à l'âge de la toute-puissance des médias. Leur statut d'écrivain s'inscrit dans une stratégie de manipulation de la couverture médiatique. Experts en scandale, ils sont l'illustration d'une double évolution : celle du statut de la littérature face à l'information, et de la posture de l'écrivain, entre engagement et star system. Ces textes peuvent d'ab

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Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting /." View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030422.094611/index.html.

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Chan, Suet Ni. "In the periphery of the margin: white masculinity in contemporary American fiction /Chan Suet Ni." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/351.

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My thesis discusses male identity in contemporary culture in relation to work by Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk. Such work reflects the problems, anxieties, and dilemmas of the masculine subject in American culture. The characters in my six selected texts, namely, Ellis' Less Than Zero, American Psycho, and Glamorama, and Palahniuk's Fight Club, Survivor, and Choke, symbolize a generation with no discernible future. Each male protagonist finds himself in a place of no time and no meaning because image and illusion have supplanted essence. These characters combat culture-prevalent emptin

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Rymajdo, Kamila. "Why is everyone not falling in love? : love and sex in the neoliberal era as seen through the lens of Bret Easton Ellis' 'Less Than Zero', 'The Rules of Attraction', 'The Informers' and 'American Psycho'." Thesis, Kingston University, 2016. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/37788/.

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Notions of love and sex are rewritten by every era but this essay concerns itself with the period of 1980s and 90s neoliberalism, as seen through the texts that make up the early oeuvre of Bret Easton Ellis, namely 'Less Than Zero', 'The Rules of Attraction', 'The Informers', 'American Psycho' and their film adaptations. I began my research by examining various notions of love, from Plato all the way to the 90s pop culture classic 'Clueless' (dir. Amy Heckerling, 1995), and eventually narrowed my focus to three distinct and opposing theories, which I will describe as romantic love, love as use

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Ghita, Cristina. "Pastiche and Abjection in American Psycho." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23314.

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Carstens, Hester. "Drempellewens : die uitbeelding van bewussyn in vyf debuutromans (tesis) en Hanna in die park (roman)." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/410.

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Stone, Ben. "Royal palms: Exploring 1980s neoliberal characterisation through Foucauldian power and discourse." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/132603/1/Benjamin_Stone_Thesis.pdf.

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This practice-led novel and exegesis explores the characterisation of an anecdotal 1980s Wall Street junket on Queensland's Gold Coast in terms of Foucauldian power and discourse. Problematising the subject's decentred ontology implied by the life sciences, Foucault's theories are adapted to illustrate characterisation as a site of discursive interpellation and contest in neoliberal fiction. Decentred, the subject as a scape of discursive practice reveals the struggle between 'personal discourse' and the organisational power of corporations. This has implications not only for character intenti

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Tsoulou, Martha. "After postmodernism : contemporary theory and fiction." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13753.

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There is a consensus today that we have witnessed the end of postmodernism in both fiction and theory. Due to contemporary fiction’s break with postmodernism being recent, little research has been done to outline the parameters of what exactly this break entails and its relationship to theory and current socio-political issues. The aim of this thesis is to attempt to differentiate between postmodernist fiction and contemporary fiction that was produced from the late 90’s up to today, outline its main characteristics and suggest alternative ways theory may be used to critically analyse fiction.

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Steiner, Liza. "Échos sadiens dans la littérature contemporaine : énoncé d’une nouvelle économie politique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAC015.

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Ce travail interroge les points de convergence existant entre l’œuvre du Marquis de Sade et celle d’un corpus d’écrivains contemporains : Tony Duvert, Catherine Millet, Aldo Busi, Elfriede Jelinek, James Graham Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Don DeLillo et Nelly Arcan. En effet, l’hypothèse surgie de la scène sadienne alliant sexualité et économie trouve un écho dans la littérature contemporaine. Mais la structure sociale, libérale et individualiste, qui s’y trouve décrite, engage des protocoles de lecture différents. De la posture élitaire de libertins sadiens mettant en danger les fondements de

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Grivas, Steven. "Invasive cultures: American culture in Bret Easton Ellis' American psycho." 1999. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7130.

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"Invasive cultures: American culture in Bret Easton Ellis’ American psycho” proposes that Ellis' small body of fictional works can be read as active critiques of American culture, detailing the ways in which this culture informs the current condition of American society in recent times. The larger intent of this thesis is to delineate and examine the relays between American culture, the forces of capitalism that underlie them, and their significant bearing on the social behaviour, personal expression and psychology of Ellis’ characters, who often directly assimilate and embody its characterist

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Flory, Alexander [Verfasser]. ""Out is in" : Bret Easton Ellis und die Postmoderne / vorgelegt von Alexander Flory." 2006. http://d-nb.info/982481543/34.

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Sheikh, Nabeela. "Missing-in-action : the American cipher in Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland." Thèse, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/17581.

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Pereira, Cristina Santos. "Raymond Carver e Bret Easton Ellis : paisagens ficcionais emergentes de um “newly envisioned world"." Master's thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/551.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Estudos Americanos apresentada à Universidade Aberta<br>Assistimos a uma multiplicidade de desafios lançada por esta nova era de finais do século XX: a inconsistência de uma sociedade mediatizada, os instantes fragmentários, a alienação individual, a coexistência constante com a ambiguidade, a ausência da melhor solução, em soma, os próprios questionamentos existenciais e sociais. A leitura da ficção de Raymond Carver e Bret Easton Ellis implica a veiculação do seu newly envisioned world, no qual os fragmentos do real são combinados enquanto construto consensual da

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Messier, Vartan P. "Canons of transgression : shock, scandal, and subversion from Matthew Lewis' The Monk to Bret Easton Ellis' American psycho /." 2004. http://grad.uprm.edu/tesis/messiervartan.pdf.

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Gauthier, Joëlle. "Au coeur de The rules of attraction de Bret Easton Ellis : pragmatique de la communication et "descente dans le chaos"." Mémoire, 2010. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/3880/1/M11902.pdf.

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Le projet d'écriture de Bret Easton Ellis constitue un point aveugle dans l'horizon critique actuel. Pour pallier ce manque, nous nous penchons dans ce mémoire sur l'esthétique pragmatique particulièrement complexe (ou « scrappy », selon la définition de Barbara Herrnstein Smith; 1988) du personnage et de la communication chez Ellis afin de définir son projet d'écriture comme expérience de « descente dans le chaos », expression développée par Maria L. Assad (1991) à partir des réflexions de Thomas M. Kavanagh (1986) sur Les cinq sens de Michel Serres (1985). Pour ce faire, nous proposons une m

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Knight, Mary Leslie. "Sympathy for the Devil: Volatile Masculinities in Recent German and American Literatures." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3830.

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<p>This study investigates how an ambivalence surrounding men and masculinity has been expressed and exploited in Pop literature since the late 1980s, focusing on works by German-speaking authors Christian Kracht and Benjamin Lebert and American author Bret Easton Ellis. I compare works from the United States with German and Swiss novels in order to reveal the scope - as well as the national particularities - of these troubled gender identities and what it means in the context of recent debates about a "crisis" in masculinity in Western societies. My comparative work will also highlight the w

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Personn, Tim. "Fictions of proximity: the Wallace Nexus in contemporary literature." Thesis, 2018. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9886.

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This dissertation studies a group of contemporary Anglo-American novelists who contribute to the development of a new humanism after the postmodern critique of Euro-American culture. As such, these writers respond to positions in twentieth-century philosophy that converge in a call for silence which has an ontological as well as ethical valence: as a way of rigorously thinking the ‘outside’ to language, it avoids charges of metaphysical inauthenticity; as an ethical stance in the wake of the Shoah, it eschews a complicity with the reifications of modern culture. How to reconcile this post-meta

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Loughran, Colin. "American Impotence: Narratives of National Manhood in Postwar U.S. Literature." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42531.

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“American Impotence” investigates a continuity between literary representations of masculinity and considerations of national identity in the works of five postwar novelists. In particular, I illustrate the manner in which Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, John Updike’s Couples, Robert Coover’s The Public Burning, Joan Didion’s Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho challenge the patterns of daily life through which a single figure is imagined to be the essential agent of American polity: namely, the self-made individualist, characterized by manly virtues

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Kuon, Ludwig [Verfasser]. "René Girard und die Wahrheit des Romans : der mimetische Konflikt als Handlungsschema in den Romanen von Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991), Michel Houellebecq, Elementarteilchen (1996), und Vladimir Sorokin, Der himmelblaue Speck (1999) / vorgelegt von Kuon, Ludwig." 2006. http://d-nb.info/980698979/34.

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