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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"American Psycho"”.
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Satire and Sympathy in American Psycho
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis was originally dismissed as flippant and distasteful because critics focused on the novel's excessive violence, misogyny, and shallow characters. The book remains controversial to this day, though later critics haveshed light on the novel as a satirical …
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Masculinity and the Postmodern in American Psycho and Fight Club
… due to various contemporary ideas. In analyzing American Psycho and Fight Club, two controversial novels written in the past twenty years, the paper makes clear that the protagonists acutely feel the tension that exists between historical perceptions of masculinity and current ideas of what men …
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Forboðna rýmið: Textatengsl kvikmyndanna American Psycho og Death Proof við ævintýrið Bláskeggur
Í þessari ritgerð eru kvikmyndirnar American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron) og Death Proof (2007, Quentin Tarantino) greindar út frá textatengslum þeirra við ævintýrið Bláskeggur. Ævintýrið kom fyrst út árið 1697 í ævintýrasafninu Sögur Gæsamömmu en höfundur þess var franski rithöfundurinn Charles …
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Psychedelics and Religious Insight: A Precedent in American Psycho-Spirituality from William James to Timothy Leary
The primary purpose of this thesis is to stress that there is a relationship between the texts one reads and the psychedelic experiences one may have. Reading texts has an effect on set and setting with respect to psychedelic experiences. Further, texts read—by figures like Timothy Leary—in the …
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A thousand points of light : a novel, with accompanying exegesis : 'Lacanian psycho : analysing transgressive fiction'
… for the scenes he or she captures. ‘Lacanian Psycho: analysing transgressive fiction’ is the exegetical component of this thesis. It applies the work of Jacques Lacan to the problem of transgressive literature by imagining the text of the novel as a Lacanian symbolic order, a pre-existing …
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Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950
… of ways of thinking about freedom in postwar American literature. This term is built in part by theories of freedom in American political thinking that value individualism and autonomy, and this dissertation connects core aesthetics of American subjectivity to the role of masculinity in a …
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Murder! But How Foul? Determination, Existentialism and Rationalization in Twentieth-Century American Novels with Transgressive Protagonists
… protagonists from canonical twentieth-century American novels are "contained" in this way by reference to philosophical or sociological systems powerful at the time of writing, and further whether the systems involved track the roughly mid-century switch of emphasis from determinism to …
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"Out is in" : Bret Easton Ellis und die Postmoderne
… Roman mehrere Erzähler zu Wort kommen. Bei American Psycho stehen die beiden Aspekte Gewalt und Materialismus im Vordergrund. Die Analyse zeigt, dass der Protagonist nicht als realistische Darstellung eines Serienmörders zu verstehen ist, sondern als Symbol für den alles verschlingenden …