Bret Easton Ellis

1. INTRODUCTION: Underwriting the Contemporary
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2. Missing Persons: Melancholy as Symptom in Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction and The Informers
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3. An Inner Critique: Commodity Fetishism, Systemic Violence, and the Abstract Mutilated Subject in American Psycho

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4. Cloning the Nineties: Cultural Amnesia, Terrorism, and Contemporary Iconoclasm in Glamorama

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5. Twenty-First-Century Gothic (or post-9/11 Fatalism): Self-Parody, Reification, and the Becoming Real of Cultural and Authorial Fictions in Lunar Park

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6. CODA: The Politics of Exposure: Unsafe Lines and Narratives of Conflict in Imperial Bedrooms

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Nyckelord: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Cultural Anthropology