Reading Chuck Palahniuk American Monsters and Literary Mayhem 1st Edition by Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin 9780415998109 0415998107

Reading Chuck Palahniuk American Monsters and Literary Mayhem 1st Edition by Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9780415998109, 0415998107

Full download Reading Chuck Palahniuk American Monsters and Literary Mayhem 1st Edition after payment

 

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0415998107

ISBN 13: 9780415998109

Author: Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin

Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk’s innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk’s texts, contexts, contributions, and controversies. Addressing novels from Fight Club through Snuff, as well as his nonfiction, this volume will be valuable to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary literature.

Table of contents:

PART I Genres, Structures, and Modes

1 Chuck Palahniuk and the Semiotics of Personal Doom: The Novelist as Escape Artist (Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant, Stranger Than Fiction, Snuff)

2 Destruction and the Discourse of Deformity: Invisible Monsters and the Ethics of Atrocity (Invisible Monsters)

3 I Am Marla’s Monstrous Wound: Fight Club and The Gothic (Fight Club)

4 ‘This Theatre of Mass Destruction’: Medieval Morality and Jacobean Convention in Palahniuk’s Novels (Fight Club, Lullaby, Diary)

5 On Mutilation: The Sublime Body of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fiction (Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Diary, Haunted, Rant)

6 ‘This is what passes for free will’: Chuck Palahniuk’s Postmodern Gothic (Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby)

7 ‘Where you’re supposed to be’: Apostrophe and Apocalypse in Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke)

PART II Politics, Cultures, and Philosophies

8 With Us or Against Us: Chuck Palahniuk’s 9/11 (Fight Club, Survivor)

9 Reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor and Haunted as a Critique of ‘The Culture Industry’ (Survivor, Haunted)

10 The Politics of Boredom: Punk, the Situationist International and Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant (Rant)

11 The Phony ‘Martyrdom of Saint Me’: Choke, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Problem of Postmodern Narcissistic Nihilism (Choke)

12 The Politics of Voice in Palahniuk’s Lullaby (Lullaby)

13 Nihilism and Buddhism in a Blender: The Religion of Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters, Choke)

14 True Stories and Beaded Necklaces: Fandom and Chuck Palahniuk’s Writing as Ritual (Fugitives and Refugees, Stranger Than Fiction)

15 Blood on the Bookstore Floor: Chuck Palahniuk and the Case of the Fainting Reader (Diary, Lullaby, Haunted)

People also search:

chuck palahniuk reading

chuck palahniuk most recent book

chuck palahniuk reading list

chuck palahniuk bret easton ellis

chuck palahniuk reading guts

Tags: Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin, Reading, American