Ethics and desire in the wake of postmodernism [electronic resource] : contemporary satire / Graham Matthews.

By: Matthews, GrahamContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Continuum literary studiesPublication details: London : Continuum, 2012Description: 200 pISBN: 9781441134394 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Satire | Ethics in literature | Desire in literature | Postmodernism (Literature)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809.3/9357 LOC classification: PN3347 | .M27 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
You do an awfully good impression of yourself: fear and uncertainty in Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park -- Nihilism and the sublime in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club -- Revolution and the multitude in J.G. Ballard's Millennium People -- Evil is to morality as magnolia is to paint: ethics and aesthetics in Will Self's Dorian: an imitation -- Sex tourism and the politics of enjoyment in Michel Houellebecq's Platform -- Feminism, satire and critique in the work of Tama Janowitz.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

You do an awfully good impression of yourself: fear and uncertainty in Bret Easton Ellis' Lunar Park -- Nihilism and the sublime in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club -- Revolution and the multitude in J.G. Ballard's Millennium People -- Evil is to morality as magnolia is to paint: ethics and aesthetics in Will Self's Dorian: an imitation -- Sex tourism and the politics of enjoyment in Michel Houellebecq's Platform -- Feminism, satire and critique in the work of Tama Janowitz.

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