"Abandon All Hope" - consumerism and loss of identity in Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" as an example of blank fiction: In comparison to selected modernist writings - Image 1

£55.90

GRIN Verlag "Abandon All Hope" - consumerism and loss of identity in Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" as an example of blank fiction: In comparison to selected modernist writings

Name: "Abandon All Hope" - consumerism and loss of identity in Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" as an example of blank fiction: In comparison to selected modernist writings
Brand: GRIN Verlag
Price: 55.9 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthologies

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£56 today · previous high £56 · all-time low £47

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 70 days · 70 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 70 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £56 (39 days, 55.7%)

Price range: £47 - £56

Price levels: 2 different prices over 70 days

Description

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, University of Hamburg (Sprach-, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho has been labeled many things from "Brat Pack Fiction" to "Generation X" to "Minimal Realism". While the classification of the novel might be difficult and it has often been misunderstood for its extremely violent scenes, what is clear to the attentive reader is its critique of consumer culture Critics have acknowledged an emergence of a large number of writings dealing with this topic in contemporary American literature in the recent past. These novels focus on the relationship of American youth with consumer culture with a seemingly non-elaborate content and style. Attempts of explaining this kind of writing, which has also been called "fiction of insurgency", "new narrative", "downtown writing" and "punk fiction", range from millennial angst to the classification of this literary movement as part of the postmodern culture. What seems clear is that these narrations are closely related to the society they have been created in. The way these texts incorporate products of their time as a constant accompanying element places them very clearly in a specific time period. The apparent non-existence of complexity concerning the style, which at times reminds the reader of a movie script or a sequence of an MTV video, has, in the case of American Psycho, caused many critics to classify the novel as boring and deny the author the status of an artist. Exactly this seeming meaninglessness of these novels argues in favor of a term introduced by critics James Annesley and Elizabeth Young: Blank fiction, or Blank Generation Fiction. The term Blank fiction seems to capture perfectly the emptiness created by consumer culture that has found its way into these narratives not simply in its context but also by means of its language, incorporating consumer g

Product Specifications

Brand: GRIN Verlag
Format: paperback
ASIN: 3638936422
Category: Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Anthologies
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 April 2008
Listed Since: 22 March 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

GRIN Verlag "Abandon All Hope" - consumerism and loss of identity in Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho" as an example of blank fiction: In comparison to selected modernist writings

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Reading Landscape in American Literature: The Outside in the Fiction of Don DeLillo

The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s: 13 (Contributions to the Study of American Literature)

Deciphering gaps and silences in Kazuo Ishiguro's early novels: The provocative nature of denial

Do You Feel It Too?: The Post-Postmodern Syndrome in American Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium: 44 (Postmodern Studies, 44)

Consumer Culture, Identity and Well-Being: The Search for the 'Good Life' and the 'Body Perfect' (European Monographs in Social Psychology)

Rethinking Fiction after the 2007/8 Financial Crisis: Consumption, Economics, and the American Dream (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)

Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Eschatology, Apocalypse and Modern Fiction: The Future of Patrick White (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)

Cinematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel Up to World War II

The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American: 103 (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)

The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Psychoanalytic Reflections on Writing, Cinema and the Arts: Facing Beauty and Loss (The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series)

Reflections on Postmodern Literature

Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Myth in Contemporary Culture: After Oedipus (Studies in the Psychosocial)

The Quiet Contemporary American Novel (Contemporary American and Canadian Writers)

Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction: American Voices and American Identities (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)

Surrogate Selves: Forging Affective Connections in Autobiographical Trauma Narratives (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing)

The Contemporary American Novel in Context (Texts and Contexts)

Reading the American Novel 1920-2010 (Reading the Novel)

Pynchon and the Political (Studies in Major Literary Authors)

Maria Gabriela Llansol and Maurice Blanchot: the writing of disaster: Essay

Consuming Behaviours: Identity, Politics and Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Britain

Postmodernity and its Discontents

Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth: The Taste of the World (Consumption and Public Life)