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Glamorama

Glamorama

Autore: Bret Easton Ellis

Numero di pagine: 562

The New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero delivers a gripping and brilliant dissection of our celebrity obsessed culture. • “Arguably the novel of the 1990’s…Should establish Ellis as the most ambitious and fearless writer of his generation…a must read.” —The Seattle Times Set in 90s Manhattan, Victor Ward, a model with perfect abs and all the right friends, is seen and photographed everywhere, even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know. He's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another on the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York City history. And now it's time to move to the next stage. But the future he gets is not the one he had in mind. With the same deft satire and savage wit he has brought to his other fiction, Bret Ellis gets beyond the facade and introduces us, unsparingly, to what we always feared was behind it. Glamorama shows us a shadowy looking-glass reality, the juncture where fame and fashion and terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives.

Glamorama

Glamorama

Autore: Pasquale De Marco

Numero di pagine: 158

In the annals of rock and roll history, glam rock stands as a singular phenomenon, a movement that transcended musical boundaries and shattered societal norms. This book takes you on a captivating journey through the world of glam rock, exploring its origins, key players, and lasting impact. Emerging in the early 1970s, glam rock was a rebellion against the prevailing culture of conformity and conservatism. It embraced androgyny, flamboyant fashion, and theatrical performances, challenging traditional notions of gender, sexuality, and artistic expression. Glam rock's pioneers, such as David Bowie, Marc Bolan, and Suzi Quatro, pushed the boundaries of rock music, creating a new genre that was both visually stunning and sonically innovative. Beyond its musical significance, glam rock had a profound impact on popular culture. It influenced fashion, art, and literature, and it helped to pave the way for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Glam rock's celebration of individuality and self-expression inspired a generation of young people to embrace their true selves and challenge societal expectations. This book delves into the stories of glam rock's iconic figures, analyzing their music, their ...

Glamorama

Glamorama

Autore: Bret Easton Ellis

Numero di pagine: 810

Eine schockierende Satire auf die oberflächliche Welt des Glamours und der Prominenz In »Glamorama« entführt Bret Easton Ellis in die schillernde, aber auch abgründige Welt der Stars, Models und Szene-Clubs. Victor Ward, ein erfolgreicher Nightlife-Profi, eröffnet seinen eigenen Club in Manhattan und kämpft wie alle im Schatten der Stars um Geld, Macht und Ruhm. Doch zunehmend gerät er in den Sog der düsteren Seite dieser Hochglanz-Welt, die eng mit Verbrechen und Gewalt verwoben ist. Ein mysteriöser Auftrag führt ihn nach London und Paris, wo er Kontakt zu einer von einem Model angeführten terroristischen Vereinigung aufnimmt, die Hotels und Flugzeuge in die Luft jagt. Gefangen in einem Netz aus Intrigen und Gewalt, sucht Victor verzweifelt nach einem Ausweg. Mit scharfem Witz und schonungsloser Härte entwirft Ellis ein Panorama der modernen Gesellschaft, in der Oberflächlichkeit, Gier und Gewalt regieren. »Glamorama« ist eine verstörende Satire, die niemanden kaltlässt.

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis

Autore: Naomi Mandel

Numero di pagine: 190

Collection of new critical essays on Bret Easton Ellis, focusing on his later novels: American Psycho (1991), Glamorama (1999), and Lunar Park (2005).

Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Autore: New York (state). Court Of Appeals , George Franklin Comstock , Henry Rogers Selden , Francis Kernan , Erasmus Peshine Smith , Joel Tiffany , Samuel Hand , Hiram Edward Sickels , Edward Jordan Dimock , Edmund Hamilton Smith , Edwin Augustus Bedell , Louis J. Rezzemini , Alvah S. Newcomb , James Newton Fiero

Numero di pagine: 1164
Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film

Memory, Imagination and Desire in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature and Film

Autore: Constanza Del Río Álvaro , Luis M. García Mainar

Numero di pagine: 292

This volume offers a series of analyses on the renewed interest of western culture in themes and aesthetic proposals that either look back to the past or recreate future worlds. The turn of the century has witnessed artistic efforts to reconsider past literary and cinematographic forms and adapt them to the new social concerns of contemporary artists and readers/viewers. Similarly, science-fiction and utopian narratives have attempted to reshape the world as we know it and speculate about the mysteries the future might hold for us. This book includes contributions that focus on and problematise the dialogue between past, present and future in literary works and films produced within the English-speaking context in the last two decades of the 20th century. It is divided in five sections - maps of the postmodern, the postcolonial experience, stories revisited, popular narrative genres and views of the future - which attempt to include all the motifs associated with that dialogue, from the interaction of memory and history to the reformulation of old stories and forms, or the representation of dystopian and utopian futures.

Twenty-first-century American Novelists

Twenty-first-century American Novelists

Autore: Lisa Abney , Suzanne Disheroon Green

Numero di pagine: 458

Authors at the dawn of the twenty-first century focus, predictably on topics that influence their society. Recurring with notable frequency in the writing of contemporary American authors are issues such as the environment, gender roles, terrorism and ecoterrorism, domestic abuse, religion and spirituality, technology, sexual and racial identities, the economy, the family and its construction, drug use and its social ramifications, and a resurgence in regionalism.

Contemporary Authors

Contemporary Authors

Autore: Tracey Watson

Numero di pagine: 476

These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors entries. A softcover cumulative index is published twice per year (included in subscription).

Fictions of Globalization

Fictions of Globalization

Autore: James Annesley

Numero di pagine: 214

The globalization debate has become a dominant question in many disciplines but has only tended to be covered within literary studies in the context of postcolonial literature. This book focuses on reading contemporary novels in relation to globalization.

Pandora's Handbag

Pandora's Handbag

Autore: Elizabeth Young

Numero di pagine: 392

For many years, Elizabeth Young has been one of the few critics in England to champion new writing and the avant-garde. Pandora's Handbag is a unique combination of autobiography, commentary, published journalism and writer's guide for would-be Arts journalists. A riveting read, the book contains revealing interviews with Herbert Huncke, Jayne County, Dennis Cooper, Edward Gorey and Poppy Z. Brite, amongst others. o Flyer Mailing to American fiction departments o Ad in The Nation Elizabeth Young is a critic, arts journalist, and the co-author of Shopping in Space: Essays on American "Blank Generation" Fiction published by Grove Atlantic.

The Pathos of Authenticity

The Pathos of Authenticity

Autore: Ulla Haselstein , Andrew S. Gross , Maryann Snyder-körber

Numero di pagine: 304

Papers from a conference held June 21-24, 2007 at the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universit'at Berlin.

This is the Flow

This is the Flow

Autore: Rutger Wolfson

Numero di pagine: 268

What role do the visual arts and museums play in our society--and what role might they play? This Is the Flow compiles a series of essays on a diverse range of subjects, such as the difference between nightclubs and museums, the nearly moot distinction between high and low culture and the question of whether art can express global contemporary values. This volume posits the theory that museums must reestablish their legitimacy and engage in a more explicit relationship with society; it engages provocative ideas about the current artistic climate while introducing new possibilities concerning the place of the museum in contemporary society. The essays in this volume are penned by a diverse selection of notable cultural producers, including Rotterdam International Film Festival Director Rutger Wolfson, critic Cornel Bierens, filmmaker and curator Edwin Carels and critic Chris Darke.

Deleuze and Literature

Deleuze and Literature

Autore: Ian Buchanan , John Marks

Numero di pagine: 304

Although he is best known as a philosopher, Deleuze's interests were extremely far reaching - in addition to his important critiques of major philosophers like Kant, Hume and Spinoza, he also wrote extensively on literature, cinema and art. Characteristically, he didn't apply philosophy to the arts, he always tried to extract philosophy from them. Deleuze wrote widely on literature, but always with an eye to extract something new and interesting, never merely to interpret. Indeed, his most notorious slogan was 'don't ask what it means? Ask how it works?' He wrote monographs on Proust, Kafka and Sacher-Masoch. He also wrote essays on Beckett, Melville, Jarry, T.E. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, and Whitman. The essays collected in this volume are the first devoted solely to Deleuze's work on literature. Written by leading Deleuzian scholars the essays focus on two main questions: how does Deleuze read literary texts? And how can we read texts in a Deleuzian way? Contributors: Bruce Baugh, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Andre Pierre Colombat, Tom Conley, Hugh Crawford, Marlene Goldman, Eugene W. Holland, Greg Lambert, John Marks, Timothy S. Murphy and Kenneth Surin

Lunar Park

Lunar Park

Autore: Bret Easton Ellis

Numero di pagine: 421

Una fantasmagoria di amore e perdita, di allucinazione e saggezza.

Manta corridor

Manta corridor

Autore: Dominique Sylvain

Numero di pagine: 266

La chaleur perle sur Paris. Lola Jost et Ingrid Diesel sont sur la piste de Louis Manta, le shampouineur du salon les “Féeries de Dakar”, disparu sans laisser d'adresse, au grand dam de sa patronne, la flamboyante Lady Mba...Cette nouvelle aventure du duo d’enquêtrices de choc nous entraîne des bords du canal Saint-Martin aux mers du Sud, de l’enquête à la chasse au trésor. À lire dans la même série “Lola et Ingrid ” : « Passage du Désir », Prix des Lectrices de ELLE, « La fille du samouraï » ; « Manta Corridor » ; « L’absence de l’Ogre » ; « Guerre sale ».

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