American Psycho

Palacios, Margarita: Fantasy and Political Violence The Meaning of Anti-Communism in Chile, VS VERLAG, 089 ISBN: 353116869X
Political violence is often understood in terms of rationality and strategic reasoning, or in terms of psychological breakdown due to structural transformations of society. Such approaches, however, allow us to understand only the 'tip of the iceberg' of a much deeper social phenomenon. Margarita Palacios analyzes political antagonism as expressing meaning and desire while bringing to the fore the paradoxical dynamic of morality and enjoyment which accompanies political violence. Her perspective informed by social theory and psychoanalysis shows the interplay of fear, hate, moral claims, and desire.This book is valuable reading for researchers and students from the social sciences and humanities, in particular in the fields of sociology, political science, cultural studies, Latin American studies, and the emerging field of psycho-social studies.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 220 p. 21 cm 210 mm x 140 mm

[KW: Chile, Antikommunismus]

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Bret EastonEllis: Imperial Bedrooms, PICADOR, April 2011 ISBN: 0330452614
This Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, now in its paperback edition. 'His tautest, most compulsively readable work since American Psycho. A sequel to Less Than Zero, it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged, dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds' Hari Kunzru, Observer

NEW 199X17X132 199 mm x 131 mm x 14 mm

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Maul, Kristina: About Edgar Allan Poe's - "The Masque of Red Death" GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, November 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638842126
Scholarly Paper (Advanced Seminar) aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,3 (A), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (American Studies), Veranstaltung: Edgar Allan Poe, 21 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: small print , Abstract: The Masque of the Red Death first appeared in May 1842 in Graham's Magazine. It is generally grouped together with three other of Poe's stories, namely King Pest, which first appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in September 1835, The Cask of Amontillado, published in Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book 33 in 1846, and Hop-Frog, published in The Flag of Our Union in 1849. Since all these stories take place dur-ing the carnival season, they are called The Masquerades. In her book The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe. A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation, Marie Bonaparte takes a Freudian approach to Poe's stories, Sigmund Freud himself wrote the preface, and claims that all the above tales are connected to Poe's father com-plex [Bonaparte; 507]. In her interpretation of The Masque of the Red Death, the figure of the Red Death is an incorporation of the father who returns to punish the son.This is just one reading of the story. Much has been published about The Masque of the Red Death, one of Poe's most read tales. Scholars have tried to find its roots, like Burton R. Pollin, who assumes that Poe used his own Shadow - A Parable as a source for The Masque of the Red Death. Others attempted to compare the story of Prince Prospero and his followers to other great works of art, for example Christopher Brown, who saw parallels between The Masque of the Red Death and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. A lot of research has also been done on the narrator of the tale - I will only elabo-rate on the most plausible theories on who it is that is telling this tale. Equally important, The Masque of the Red Death is said to contain one of the most exact definitions of the grotesque in the literary sense.Finally, as almost all of Poe's tales, The Masque of the Red Death, too, contains an in-credible amount of symbolism. Everything from the significance of blood over the impor-tance of the number seven in mysticism to the meaning of colors can be traced in this tale, which must also be read as an allegory and a memento mori.

NEUBUCH! 2007. 56 S. 210 mm 210 mm x 148 mm x 4 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V14564

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Buchholz, Sabine: At the edge of art and insanity Postmodern elements in Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" (1991) GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, Februar 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638904563
Scholary Paper aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Universität Siegen (FB 3 (Literatur-, Srach- und Medienwissenschaften)), Veranstaltung: Postmodern Fiction, 26 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: With the attention-grabbing novel American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis entered quite a dangerous ground. The bizarre mixture of yuppie satire and splatter horror caused reactions of scathing criticism, indignation, yes, even murder threat. As a consequence, the publishing house that had the first contract with Ellis and was supposed to edit the novel, namely Simon & Schuster, responded to this radical refusal and cancelled the deal already made. This decision, not to publish a book due to the negative responds against it, meant another scandal since it was a sensation in the American publishing business. Anyway, brushing aside all moral standards, Ellis' shocker was published in 1991 by Vintage books, and for a while, the young writer became the meistgehaßte[...] Autor der Welt - evidently, because critics considered his narration too pornographic, sexist, anti-women, disgusting, boring and beyond belief. Yet, American Psycho was regarded with interest - probably last but not least because Bret Easton Ellis had been celebrated as a great talent when publishing Less than Zero.Meanwhile, countless studies with many diverging approaches manifest that American Psycho may not be condemned and dismissed as a pure splatter work glorifying violence. There are works analysing the publication and the reception of the novel as well as the socio-cultural background; other studies focus on content and stylistic device , or on the motif of the serial killer as postmodern anti-hero. Additionally, some special analyses examine the position of the novel within the American history of censorship or even attempt to draw a parallel from Ellis' Bateman to Goethe's Faust. Thus, it is substantiated that the interest in American Psycho has spread widely and quickly. And still, 15 years after its publication the ambiguous novel, which was, besides, brought to screen in 2000, offers many subjects of discussion. The aim of this paper is to analyse in what way and to what extent Ellis' work is distinctive for the period of literary postmodernism. Definitively, there are several innovative and scandalous stratagies applied in American Psycho, but are these devices really symptomatic for a postmodern perception To answer a question like that, first of all, an essential condition is of course a definition of postmodern terms. [...]

NEUBUCH! 2008. 60 S. 210 mm 209 mm x 150 mm x 18 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V82600

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