The Architecture of Fear: Discourses of spatiality and violence in American Psycho and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis

This essay examines the ways in which Ellis uses space in his novels to explore the nature of experience in a climate of accelerated market capital, violent spectacle and the collapse of the private/public distinction that defines the postmodern epoch. This thesis draws upon critical and literary th...

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Main Author: Collins, Michael J
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20625/