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"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 debut novel and the infamy of American Psycho." - Scott Wilson, Professor in the School of Humanities, London Graduate School, Kingston University
"Colby provides a path-breaking reading and re-situation of Bret Easton Ellis s work, elegantly written and attentive to the rich paradoxes of his authorial persona and literary stance.With her elaboration of the underwritten as double-voiced critique, she moves us away from the clichés of the Blank Generation and gives us tools for an understanding of the slippery politics of contemporary fiction. Ellis emerges as a better and more dangerous writer than we know." - Tim Armstrong, Professor of Modern English and American Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Book Title: Bret Easton Ellis
Book Subtitle: Underwriting the Contemporary
Authors: Georgina Colby
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339163
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Georgina Colby 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11698-6Published: 09 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29776-4Published: 09 August 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33916-3Published: 15 August 2011
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 228
Topics: North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Cultural Anthropology