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Myself is fabricated, an aberration - The serial killer as a product of mass culture in Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho (Paperback)
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Myself is fabricated, an aberration - The serial killer as a product of mass culture in Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho (Paperback)
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies -
Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Mannheim, course: Neorealism,
9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This
paper deals with the novel American Psycho by the American author
Bret Easton Ellis and his place amongst other writers of the "blank
generation." The term "blank generation fiction" will be defined by
citing those literary critics who extensively examined this trend,
namely Elizabeth Young, Graham Caveney and James Annesley. Based on
their work it will be shown how violence in blank generation
fiction has not to be taken literally but can adopt symbolic
meaning. Furthermore we shall see in an anlysis of American Psycho
how this symbolic meaning develops in this novel in direct relation
to the vast consumerism and the hyperreal quality of life in the
1980s. It will be closely examined how the seemingly unmotivated
murderous behaviour of the novels main protagonist can be
interpreted as a direct, logical, if exaggerated result of mass
culture and the principles of the free market. Finally it will be
examined how Ellis integrates chapters written in the style of
music journalism into his novel to stress both the fragmentation of
the main protagonists mind by the media and the perversity of the
consumer who can easily switch from witnessing an act of extreme
violence to unworriedly reflecting on something like music, another
mass cultural phenomenon.
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