Reading Chuck Palahniuk [electronic resource] : American monsters and literary mayhem / edited by Cynthia Kuhn and Lance Rubin.
Series: Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 2.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: vii, 231 pISBN:- 9780203869529
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Genres, structures, and modes. Chuck Palahniuk and the semiotics of personal doom : the novelist as escape artist / Sidney L. Sondergard -- Destruction and the discourse of deformity : Invisible monsters and the ethics of atrocity / Andrew Ng -- I am Marla's monstrous wound : Fight club and The gothic / Cynthia Kuhn -- 'This theatre of mass destruction' : medieval morality and Jacobean convention in Palahniuk's Novels / Christina Angel -- On mutilation : the sublime body of Chuck Palahniuk's fiction / Andrew Slade -- 'This is what passes for free will' : Chuck Palahniuk's postmodern gothic / Sherry R. Truffin, -- 'Where you're supposed to be' : Apostrophe and apocalypse in Chuck Palahniuk / Joshua Parker --
pt. II. Politics, cultures, and philosophies. With us or against us : Chuck Palahniuk's 9/11 / Jesse Kavadlo -- Reading Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor and Haunted as a critique of 'the culture industry' / David Simmons and Nicola Allen -- The politics of boredom : punk, the situationist international and Chuck Palahniuk's Rant / Lance Rubin -- The phony 'martyrdom of Saint Me' : Choke, The catcher in the rye, and the problem of postmodern narcissistic nihilism / Alex E. Blazer -- The politics of voice in Palahniuk's Lullaby / Peter Mathews -- Nihilism and Buddhism in a blender : the religion of Chuck Palahniuk / G. Christopher Williams -- True stories and beaded necklaces : fandom and Chuck Palahniuk's writing as ritual / Devin Harner -- Blood on the bookstore floor : Chuck Palahniuk and the case of the fainting reader / Steffen Hantke.
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