Essays Tagged: "Bret Easton Ellis"

Grunge Literature, What quality in a novel is it which prompts it to be labelled as 'grunge literature'? And why do so many authors of books which fall into this genre object so strenuously to the la

m of the generation X-ers. They follow in the footsteps of the US grunge writers, inspired first by Bret Easton Ellis Less Than Zero, American Psycho.The River Ophelia was Ettler's first published nov ...

(5 pages) 61 0 3.6 Apr/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

"American Psycho" : Satirists make the best Moralists

uch a world, art becomes the remaining link to the unknown."In his satirical novel American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis provides the framework for his readers moralise on a level unobtainable through tr ... d questioning people's worthiness of it. Malcolm Knox notes that"More Australians read Chopper than Bret Easton Ellis. The fascination with Chopper Read, in film as on paper, is that he is a real pers ...

(11 pages) 103 2 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

American Psycho - Summary Book Report/Review

A careful, controlled, and shocking novel, American Psycho by Brenton Easton Ellis remains one of the most controversial and important pieces of modern literature. It's r ... over from 80's to 90's and how nothing has really changed; even in present society now.What Brenton Easton Ellis has set out to do in this novel is alert the reader to the ridiculousness and shallowne ...

(3 pages) 35 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

American Pyscho

r all their black comedy potential. In many ways Mary Harron one-ups the author of American Pyscho, Bret Easton Ellis in just about every department with her screen adaptation. Harron takes the most s ... characters and their world. Overall American Psycho is a failry good adaptaion of the grisly Bret Easton Ellis book. Having read the novel before seeing the film, i would have to say that Mary ...

(4 pages) 12 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Less than zero book review

hurned out for years. It's only 200 pages or so, so it's worth the time to read it. I learned about Bret Easton Ellis and his work from an interview in High Times magazine. His age at Less Than Zeros ...

(3 pages) 3 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Less Than Zero Analysis

Bryon McCoy 2/8/99 Less Than Zero Analysis Less Than Zero, written by Brett Easton Ellis, is almost as much about Blair as it is about Clay. Further more, the relationshi ...

(3 pages) 4513 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

How to get proper rest

(46 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers