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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
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In 1985, twenty-one-year-old Bret Easton Ellis jolted the literary world with his first novel, Less than Zero, and was hailed by more than one critic as the voice of the new generation. His subsequent...
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While still an undergraduate at Bennington College in Vermont, Ellis published his best-selling novel Less Than Zero. His books have endured literary criticism ranging from "infantile and sophomoric" ...
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Frequently disliked by reviewers, faulted for his youth and apparent disregard for political correctness, Bret Easton Ellis was the enfant terrible of 1980s fiction. His first novel, Less Than Zero (1...
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In the following review, Gardner considers American Psycho among a group of other "transgressive novels."
Thirty years ago the art of fiction began to undergo a change similar to one tha...
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In the following essay, Freccero discusses reactions to American Psycho and explores the significance of the novel's violence.
US mass media has become a much-publicized target of censorious co...
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In the following essay, Young appraises American Psycho as a postmodern text.
The publication of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho in 1991 was replete with ironies. It seemed as if the world ...
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Teaching American Psycho
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American Psycho Lesson Plans contain 130 pages of teaching material, including:
Bret Easton Ellis
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Critical Review by James Gardner
