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Georgina Colby - Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) - 9780230116986 - V9780230116986
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Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)

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Description for Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) Hardcover. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary culture, which offers new paths of understanding and ways of critiquing the contemporary author's place in the relations of production.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230116986
SKU
V9780230116986
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
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99-15

About Georgina Colby
Georgina Colby is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.

Reviews for Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
"Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary is an accomplished and challenging book that, through a close reading of Ellis s oeuvre to date, attempts to correlate political and literary value in order to extract a new politics of literature. It is a timely and serious work on a very important author whose reputation is overshadowed by the celebrity of his ... Read more

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