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  1. 1. “Imitating Reality”: An Analysis of “American Psycho”

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Sana Sadraddin Mahiddin; [2020]
    Nyckelord :American Psycho; Postmodernism; Narratology; serial killers;

    Sammanfattning : 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

  3. 2. Embedded Madness: Mad Narrators and Possible Worlds

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Eloise Brason; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Mad Narrators; Narratology; Postclassical Narratology; Possible Worlds Theory; Fictional Worlds;

    Sammanfattning : 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

  4. 3. Psykopatfabriken : Maskulinitetskonstruktioner i Iain Banks The Wasp Factory och Bret Easton Ellis American Psycho

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Litteraturvetenskapliga institutionen

    Författare :Jim Andersson; [2016]
    Nyckelord :maskulinitet; maskuliniteter; bret easton ellis; iain banks; american psycho; the wasp factory; getingfabriken;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  5. 4. Will To Appear

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Paul Kraus; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Bret Easton Ellis; American Psycho; Literary Analysis; Critical Analysis; Deleuze; Foucault; Control Society; Discipline; William S. Burroughs; Dante; Augustine; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : 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

  7. 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 interkultur

    Författare :Robin Lundberg; [2015]
    Nyckelord :unreliable narration; Patrick Bateman; Dexter Morgan;

    Sammanfattning : 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