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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.
Full textHelm, 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.
Full textvon, 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.
Full textRomanen American Psycho publicerades 1991. Den fick hård kritik och sågs som ett heterosexistiskt, misogynt verk fullt av meningslöst våld. Trots kritiken fascinerade protagonisten, den förmögna seriemördaryuppien Patrick Bateman, läsarna. Bateman döljer sin monstrositet bakom en heteronormativ fasad men den här uppsatsen visar att textens heteronorm är bräcklig. Batemans relationer är ytliga, identiteten är konstruerad från traditionella maskulinitetsnormer, han är homofobisk, även då gotiska, homoerotiska undertoner präglar texten. Analysen visar att AIDS-skräcken som präglar boken är synonym med Batemans sexualitetsdiskrepans, att hans känslor för två av hans kollegor är av homoerotisk karaktär, samt att i ytliga läsningar av romanen, där texten inte tolkas, gör det explicita våldet att läsarens uppmärksamhet avleds från romanens queera innebörd.
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.
Full textRoche, 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.
Full textSilva, 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.
Full textPatrick 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 na década de 1980 para denominar jovens e bem sucedidos profissionais urbanos), Bateman é materialista e hedonista. Ele está imerso em uma sociedade de consumo, fato que o impossibilita de perceber diferenças entre produtos e pessoas. Sendo um narcisista, ele se torna um competidor em busca de admiração. No entanto, Bateman também é um serial killer e suas descrições detalhadas de torturas e assassinatos horrorizam. Por fim, nós leitores duvidamos de sua narrativa ao notarmos inconsistências e ambiguidades. Zygmunt Bauman (2009) afirma que uma sociedade extremamente capitalista transforma tudo que nela existe em algo consumível. Christopher Lasch (1991) afirma que o lendário Narciso deu lugar a um novo, controverso, dependente e menos confiante. A maioria das vítimas de Bateman são membros de grupos socialmente marginalizados, como mendigos, homossexuais, imigrantes e prostitutas, o que o torna uma identidade predatória, segundo Arjun Appadurai (2006). A voz autodiegética e a narrativa incongruente do protagonista, contudo, impedem que confiemos em suas palavras. Estas são as quatro faces que pretendo apresentar deste serial killer
The autodiegetic protagonist Patrick Bateman, in Bret Easton Elliss American Psycho (1991), is a troubling character, for he is highly-educated, wealthy and handsome as well as a torturer, a killer and a cannibal. This antagonistic behavior, nonetheless, does not make him a singular character. The four sides he presents throughout the novel are singular, though: (1) he consumes humans and commodities equally; (2) he competes for recognition and admiration; (3) his acts are horrific; and (4) his narration is unreliable. As a yuppie (a popular term from the 1980s used to define young urban U.S. professionals), Bateman is materialistic and hedonistic. As he lives off the excesses of a consumer society, he is incapable of distinguishing people from products. As a self-absorbed, narcissistic protagonist, he becomes a competitor struggling to get approval from his peers. Nevertheless, Bateman is a serial killer, and his detailed descriptions of tortures and murders are horrifying. Finally, we readers cannot rely on his narrative once we notice ambiguities and divergences. Zygmunt Bauman (2009) posits that an extremely capitalist society forces people to be commodified. Christopher Lasch (1991) asseverates that the old legendary Narcissus gave birth to a new one, paradoxical, dependent and less confident. Most of Batemans victims are socially-marginalized characters, members of minority groups, such as homeless people, homosexuals, immigrants, and prostitutes. As a matter of fact, Bateman may be regarded as having a predatory identity, as defined by Arjun Appadurai (2006). However, this autodiegetic narrator, together with his inconsistent narrative, cannot be entirely trusted. These are the points I want to debate regarding this fourfold serial killer
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.
Full textAlt, 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.
Full textWeibels-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.
Full textNabo, 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.
Full textBusonik, 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.
Full textBengtsson, 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.
Full textAnnesley, 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.
Full textBusonik, 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.
Full textHardie, 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.
Full textd'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/.
Full textBusonik, 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.
Full textFredriksson, 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.
Full textWadström, 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.
Full textLutton, 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.
Full textLeypoldt, 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.
Full textSimon, Alaina R. "Satire and Sympathy in American Psycho." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1355508133.
Full textFerry, 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.
Full textWagner, 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.
Full textHawryluk, 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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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.
Full textEigeartaigh, 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.
Full textHawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting." Thesis, View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/6.
Full textGranger, Remy Maud. "Le roman posthumain." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030040.
Full textThrough a comparative analysis of the novels of Houellebecq, Dantec, Ellis and Gibson, this dissertation attempts to define the transnational literary genre that I call The Posthuman Novel. The posthuman novelists are children of the media-age. Their abilities to use and abuse media coverage makes them experts in the orchestration of various scandals, which illustrate the evolution of the status of literature at the mass media age, and the position of the writer, between intellectual engagement and star system. These texts can be defined first ideologically as discourses of the endings: End of the world and apocalyptic aesthetics; end of man and death of the character. The posthuman age is the defeat of the individual. Generally the posthuman writers are testifying to the loss of those modern conceptions of man, space and time inspired by transcendence and ideals. We will also observe the novels endings as they illustrate a problematic relationship with utopia. This pessimistic discourse is elaborated through a highly satirical style, which reveals the provocative and prophetic stance of these writers. The stylistic analysis of the satiric techniques shows that satire functions as a moral position, linked to prophecy, but also as a narrative technique which reveals the mutations of language and makes the global language audible. These linguistic mutations give way to a generic redefinition of the novel. Phenomena such as simulation and massification question the generic limits of the texts. The integration of virtual spaces in the narrative questions the fictional space, the staging of tourism questions the construction of the plot and the gothic pattern contribute to the derealisation of these fictions. In fact, the posthuman writers build the model of a disincarnated novel – a novel which has freed itself of the limits of realism, but has also lost touch with the flesh. Those narratives obsessed by the actual, are loosing sight of the living
Hawryluk, Lynda J. "Call waiting /." View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030422.094611/index.html.
Full textChan, 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.
Full textRymajdo, 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/.
Full textGhita, 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.
Full textCarstens, 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.
Full textStone, 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.
Full textTsoulou, Martha. "After postmodernism : contemporary theory and fiction." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13753.
Full textSteiner, Liza. "Échos sadiens dans la littérature contemporaine : énoncé d’une nouvelle économie politique." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAC015.
Full textThis work studies the ground shared by the work of the Marquis de Sade and a corpus of works by contemporary writers : Tony Duvert, Catherine Millet, Aldo Busi, Elfriede Jelinek, James Graham Ballard, Bret Easton Ellis, Don DeLillo and Nelly Arcan. Sade’s hypothesis of a combination of sexuality and economy finds echoes in contemporary literature. But the social, liberal and individualistic structure which such literature describes entails different reading protocols. From the elitist posture of Sadian libertines, which endangers the society’s foundations, to democratic leveling, which involves a new conformism, we can see a mutation of the intersubjective relations in progress. The authors of this corpus redefine the economy of passion and the economy of enjoyment by presenting us with characters subjected to the tyranny of consumerism. From the enumeration of sexual partners to a sexual production turned into economic production, our corpus highlights desire as a mode of analysis of new violence within society. The authors in our corpus may not use the same narrative strategies, but their respective ways of writing all contribute to defeating this deadly new Eros
Grivas, Steven. "Invasive cultures: American culture in Bret Easton Ellis' American psycho." 1999. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7130.
Full textEllis' preoccupations with popular and consumer cultures, with the increasingly invasive mass media, and with a visually oriented society obsessed with surfaces, are all examined in the light of how these cultures are radically entangled with the consciousness and behaviour of his characters. In Ellis' fiction, the banal and the sensational are lucrative fixtures of a culture that functions as a commercial industry, driven by profit like any other, that exploits the desires and expectations of its consumers. Moreover, these common representations and modes of expression are presented as contagious, seeping into personal modes of self-expression. Just as Ellis instances how culture rigorously shapes the body and lifestyle, he also demonstrates through the stylized consciousness of his characters the media's powerful influence on their subjectivity and behaviour. This thesis focuses on American psycho (1991) but also discusses Ellis' other novels Less than zero (1984), The rules of attraction (1987), and The informers (1994).
Flory, Alexander [Verfasser]. ""Out is in" : Bret Easton Ellis und die Postmoderne / vorgelegt von Alexander Flory." 2006. http://d-nb.info/982481543/34.
Full textSheikh, Nabeela. "Missing-in-action : the American cipher in Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland." Thèse, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/17581.
Full textPereira, 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.
Full textAssistimos 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 experiência empírica. Ambos forjam um sentido diferente da identidade americana, produzindo uma variedade de perspectivas sobre o quadro contemporâneo através dos vários possíveis minimalismos que remetem para uma qualidade ou modo de experiência. Carver procura o sentido das palavras e das coisas no espaço doméstico, reflectindo o género do conto uma condição essencial da nossa era moderna, do nosso sentido de marginalidade no mundo e da nossa percepção, frequentemente ténue, de nós próprios. Por sua vez, Ellis oferece uma visão de um mundo subjugado por uma cultura cada vez mais comodificada, reencontrando-se capaz de reconhecer as jactâncias e as contradições desta nova era, dando lugar a uma reavaliação das lógicas desse quotidiano
On assiste à une multiplicité de défis lancée par cette nouvelle ère de la fin du XXème siècle: l´inconsistance d´une société médiatisée, les instants fragmentaires, l´aliénation individuelle, la coexistence constante avec l´ambiguïté, l´absence de la meilleure solution, en somme, les propres questionnements existentiels et sociaux. La lecture de la fiction de Raymond Carver et Bret Easton Ellis implique le véhicule de leur newly envisioned world, dont les fragments du réel sont combinés en tant que construction consensuelle de l´expérience empirique. Tous deux forgent un sens différent de l´identité américaine, produisant une variété de perspectives concernant le cadre contemporain à travers des divers possibles minimalismes qui renvoient à une qualité ou mode d´expérience. Carver cherche le sens des mots et des choses dans l´espace domestique, reflétant le genre du conte une condition essentielle de notre ère moderne, de notre sens de marginalité dans le monde et de notre perception, fréquemment ténue, de nous-mêmes. De son côté, Ellis offre une vision d´un monde soumis à une culture où rien n´est gratuit, se rencontrant capable de reconnaître les jactances et les contradictions de cette nouvelle ère, donnant lieu à une réévaluation des logiques de ce quotidien
Abstract - At present, we attend a multiplicity of challenges made by the late 20th century era: an inconsistency of a media society, fragmentary moments, the individual’s alienation, a constant coexistence with ambiguity, the absence of the best solution, to sum up, the very existential and social questionings. The reading of Raymond Carver’s and Ellis’s fiction implies the consideration of their newly envisioned world. Here the fragments of the real are combined, building up a consensual picture of the empiric experience. Both shape a different American identity, putting forward a variety of perspectives about the contemporary scene through the different possible minimalisms which are linked to a quality or mode of experience. Carver looks for the meaning of the words and things in the domestic sphere. In his case, the short story mirrors an essential condition of our time, of our sense of marginality in the world and of our quite often tenuous perception of ourselves. Ellis, on his turn, offers the vision of a world subdued by a more and more comodified culture, being able to recognise the display and contradictions of this new era, opening up a reassessment of its logic
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.
Full textGauthier, 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.
Full textKnight, Mary Leslie. "Sympathy for the Devil: Volatile Masculinities in Recent German and American Literatures." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3830.
Full textThis 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 ways in which these particular literatures and cultures intersect, invade, and influence each other.
In this examination, I demonstrate the complexity and success of the critical projects subsumed in the works of three authors too often underestimated by intellectual communities. At the same time, I reveal the very structure and language of these critical projects as a safe haven for "male fantasies" of gender difference and identity formation long relegated to the distant past, fantasies that continue to lurk within our cultural currencies.
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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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Loughran, Colin. "American Impotence: Narratives of National Manhood in Postwar U.S. Literature." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42531.
Full textKuon, 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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