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Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park de Dr Naomi Mandel

Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction

Editat de Dr Naomi Mandel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 noi 2010

Adresat studenților din anii terminali, cercetătorilor și practicienilor din domeniul studiilor literare, volumul Bret Easton Ellis, editat de Dr Naomi Mandel, oferă instrumentele critice necesare pentru a naviga prin opera unuia dintre cei mai controversați autori americani contemporani. Considerăm că acest titlu este esențial pentru înțelegerea modului în care Ellis a transformat literatura prin explorarea hiper-realității și a violenței. Ne-a atras atenția rigoarea cu care eseul introductiv și capitolele ulterioare repoziționează American Psycho nu doar ca un fenomen cultural de masă, ci ca un pilon al canonului literar postmodern.

Structura volumului este una cronologică și tematică, fiind împărțită în trei secțiuni ce corespund operelor de maturitate: American Psycho, Glamorama și Lunar Park. Analiza progresează de la estetica violenței și psihoza existențială, spre intermedialitate și politicile celebrității, culminând cu reevaluarea identității autorului în Lunar Park. Cititorii familiarizați cu Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho de Julian Murphet vor aprecia aici o perspectivă mult mai largă, care nu se rezumă la un singur text, ci urmărește evoluția stilistică și conceptuală a scriitorului pe parcursul a două decenii.

În contextul seriei Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction, această lucrare completează analizele din Bret Easton Ellis's Controversial Fiction de Dr Sonia Baelo-Allué, oferind o sinteză între succesul comercial și disprețul critic pe care Ellis l-a generat constant. Volumul reușește să demonstreze cum temele recurente ale autorului — consumismul extrem și disolvarea realității — rămân repere fundamentale pentru critica literară actuală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826446480
ISBN-10: 0826446485
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Seria Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această colecție de eseuri este recomandată celor care doresc să depășească nivelul de suprafață al controverselor legate de Bret Easton Ellis. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a tehnicilor narative și a subtextului etic din American Psycho sau Glamorama. Este o resursă academică solidă care validează importanța literară a lui Ellis, fiind un ghid indispensabil pentru orice lucrare de licență sau cercetare despre ficțiunea americană contemporană.

Descriere

This collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis examines the novels of his mature period: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005). Taking as its starting-point American Psycho's seismic impact on contemporary literature and culture, the volume establishes Ellis' centrality to the scholarship and teaching of contemporary American literature in the U.S. and in Europe. Contributors examine the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to this controversial writer, provide an overview of growing critical material on Ellis and review the literary and artistic significance of his recent work. Exploring key issues including violence, literature, reality, reading, identity, genre, and gender, the contributors together provide a critical re-evaluation of Ellis, exploring how he has impacted, challenged, and transformed contemporary literature in the U.S. and abroad.

Cuprins

Series Preface \ Introduction \ Part I: American Psycho (1991) \ Introduction \ 1. Violence, Ethics, and the Rhetoric of Decorum in American Psycho, Michael P. Clark (University of California, Irvine, USA) \ 2. American Psycho, Hamlet, and Existential Psychosis, Alex E. Blazer (Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, USA) \ 3. 'The Soul of this Man is His Clothes': Violence and Fashion in American Psycho, Elana Gomel (Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel) \ Part II: Glamorama (1999) \ Introduction \ 4. "'It's Really Me': Intermediality and Constructed Identities in Glamorama", Sonia Baelo-Allué (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) \ 5. The Unusual Suspects: Celebrity, Conspiracy, and Objective Violence in Glamorama, David Schmid (University at Buffalo, USA) \ 6. "Merely Political": Glam Terrorism and Celebrity Politics in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama, Arthur Redding (York University, Toronto, Canada) \ Part III: Lunar Park (2005) \ Introduction \ 7. "An awfully good impression": truth and testimony in Lunar Park, Jeff Karnicky (Drake University, Des Moines, USA) \ 8. What's in a name? Double exposures in Lunar Park, Henrik Skov Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) \ 9. Brand Ellis: celebrity authorship in Lunar Park, James Annesley (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) \ Further Reading \ Notes on Contributors \
Index

Recenzii

"Naomi Mandel's exceedingly well edited collection of essays on Bret Easton Ellis's three major novels-American Psycho, Glamorama, and Lunar Park-provides us with the first, long overdue, book-length account of one of the most controversial and reviled of all American authors. A brave undertaking that goes against the received wisdom of much academic and middle-brow literary criticism, this volume offers many surprising insights through close, lucid, frequently ingenious, and always astute encounters with Ellis's work. Despite-or perhaps better because of-the broad scope of approaches featured, this volume presents readers with a remarkably coherent critical conversation; no doubt to the chagrin of the author's many detractors, this collection of essays ultimately puts forth a convincing counter-canonical argument by positioning Bret Easton Ellis as one of the major American writers of the last thirty years. As such, Bret Easton Ellis proves to be not only an indispensable, and immensely teachable, resource for anyone interested in Ellis's work but also provocative for the study of contemporary literary culture in general."
"If Ellis's fiction is notoriously said to be about "surface, surface, surface", this collection of essays duly traces the terrestrial details and faultlines of his prose, to interpret how he diagnoses, reveals and often anticipates the most acute contemporary anxieties, from psychological consequences of materialism through the injunction between politics and media to current questions of literary authorship. What is more, the volume offers, probably for the first time, an overview of Ellis's later career as a novelist from American Psycho to Lunar Park. A must for any scholar and, indeed, with the editor's introduction, for any student or reader of contemporary American literature."
This collection of essays on Bret Easton Ellis's "mature work" (American Psycho, 1991; Glamorama, 1999, LunarPark, 2005) is long overdue. Part of the literary "brat pack" of the 1980s (together with Janowitz and McInerney), Ellis has long stepped outside the genre fiction of his early works, becoming one of the most acknowledged critics of U.S. American lifestyle. The main targets of Ellis's biting critiques - postmodern consumer culture, the "celebrity discourse," and the omnipresence of violence are examined in this anthology in ten persuasive essays. With good reason, the book concentrates on three central novels, which are representative of both thewide range of topicsnegotiated in Ellis's works and the "brand Ellis" (that is, the writer's self-construction in his writings). The anthology is equipped with an excellent introduction on the "value and values of Bret Easton Ellis" as well as introductory articles to each of the three discussed texts. This anthology is not only a wonderful overview of Ellis's oeuvre. It also offers a number of witty and theoretically challenging accounts of the author's most provocative texts. All in all, this book represents an important look at the work of this still active author, covering a basic void in previous criticismof Ellis. This anthology is an indispensable study book for academic discussions of postmodern American literature.
'Mandel's collection fills a glaring lacuna in contemporary criticism. Ellis's work deserves a book-length study and this collection largely succeeds in providing sober discussion that is necessarily contextual but free of the hysteria occasioned by the extremity of the source material.'
... readers should appreciate the series' clear purpose and excellent essays. The series is a welcome addition to scholarship. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.