American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Narratology, masculinity, and reality : the construction and collapse of the postmodern crisis of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, 2010
Item — Call number MU Thesis Fli
Identifier: b4175587
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2010
The contemporary American wasteland of Infinite Jest, 2019
Item — Call number MU Thesis Yar
Identifier: b7929339
Introduction/Overview [excerpt]
As scholar Cory Hudson notes, a paradigmatic shift has occurred in the way that critics read David Foster Wallace's fiction in the wake of the author's 2008 suicide. This shift has seen readings of Wallace's fiction turn away from the texts themselves and begin instead in para-textual materials such as interviews and personal writings. This causes scholars to often conflate their interpretations of the texts with details from Wallace's personal life (especially his own troubles with...
Dates:
2019
Who the fuck is moi? : the effects of consumer culture on identity and reality in Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama, 2014
Item — Call number MU Thesis Con
Identifier: b7666497
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection consists of theses written by students enrolled in the Monmouth University graduate English program. The holdings are primarily bound print documents that were submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for the Master of Arts or Master of Fine Arts degrees.Students become eligible to pursue the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) degree if they have obtained a Master of Arts...
Dates:
2014