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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden Bret Easton Ellis.
1. “Imitating Reality”: An Analysis of “American Psycho”
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : This paper analyzes Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991), and more specifically, the protagonist-narrator Patrick Bateman. He is analyzed through the theoretical framework known as narratology, and more specifically, the designation of “unreliable narrator,” in order to analyze the interplay between the character and the postmodernist society of which he is a product. LÄS MER
2. Embedded Madness: Mad Narrators and Possible Worlds
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : Madness has long been a popular theme for literature, featuring as a trope of horror, mystery, tragedy and comedy genres in varying degrees of amplitude. The topic has provided a significant access point for analysing historical, socio-political and cultural issues as it addresses controversial themes of alienation and criminality as well as philosophical theories of perception and consciousness. LÄS MER
3. Psykopatfabriken : Maskulinitetskonstruktioner i Iain Banks The Wasp Factory och Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : .... LÄS MER
4. Will To Appear
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/EngelskaSammanfattning : This paper presents an opportunity for the uncertainty that has plagued the novel's criticism to appear as absences in the body of historical knowledge, particularly regarding the notion of life after death. Taking appearance (eg. LÄS MER
5. Unreliable narration in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho and Jeff Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Kandidat-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkulturSammanfattning : This essay focuses on the character Patrick Bateman in American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and his unreliability as a narrator and compares it to the unreliable narration of the character Dexter Morgan in Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. These characters' respective unreliability is analyzed from the perspective of six types of unreliability suggested by James Phelan and Mary Patricia Martin: misreporting, misreading, misregarding, underreporting, underreading and underregarding. LÄS MER