"Myself is fabricated, an aberration": The serial killer as by Reinhard Goebels

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By Reinhard Goebels

Seminar paper from the 12 months 2006 within the topic American reports - Literature, grade: 1,0, collage of Mannheim, path: Neorealism, nine entries within the bibliography, language: English, summary: This paper offers with the radical American Psycho by means of the yankee writer Bret Easton Ellis and his position among different writers of the “blank generation”. The time period “blank new release fiction” may be outlined by way of bringing up these literary critics who widely tested this pattern, particularly Elizabeth younger, Graham Caveney and James Annesley.
Based on their paintings will probably be proven how violence in clean new release fiction has to not be taken actually yet can undertake symbolic which means. moreover we will see in an anlysis of yankee Psycho how this symbolic which means develops during this novel in direct relation to the enormous consumerism and the hyperreal caliber of existence within the Eighties. will probably be heavily tested how the possible unmotivated murderous behaviour of the novel´s major protagonist will be interpreted as an instantaneous, logical, if exaggerated results of mass tradition and the foundations of the unfastened market.
Finally will probably be tested how Ellis integrates chapters written within the type of song journalism into his novel to emphasize either the fragmentation of the most protagonist´s brain via the media and the perversity of the shopper who can simply change from witnessing an act of maximum violence to unworriedly reflecting on anything like track, one other mass cultural phenomenon.

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