Both literary author and celebrity, Bret Easton Ellis represents a type of contemporary writer who draws from both high and the low culture, using popular culture references, styles and subject matters in a literary fiction that goes beyond mere...
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Both literary author and celebrity, Bret Easton Ellis represents a type of contemporary writer who draws from both high and the low culture, using popular culture references, styles and subject matters in a literary fiction that goes beyond mere entertainment. His fiction, arousing the interest of the academia, mass media and general public, has fuelled heated controversy over his work. This controversy has often prevented serious analysis of his fiction, and this book is the first monograph to fill in this gap by offering a comprehensive textual and contextual analysis of his most important w
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part 1: Between the High and the Low; Part 2: Less Than Zero (1985); Part 3: American Psycho (1991); Part 4: Glamorama (1998); Part 5: New Paths?; Notes; Works Cited; Index
