Celebrity, fatherhood, paranoia: the post-postmodern gothic of Lunar Park
Abstract
Il saggio propone un’analisi di Lunar Park (2005) di Bret Easton Ellis come esempio di attitudine post-postmoderna verso la ripresa del romanzo di genere, ben distante dal riuso parodico e dal pastiche tipici della postmodernità. L’adozione dei topoi e delle soluzioni formali del romanzo horror serve a nominare e indagare aspetti specifici della società americana nel contesto di una costruzione narrativa canonicamente strutturata.
The article considers Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park (2005) an example of the post-postmodern approach in genre fiction, highlighting the distance from the characteristically postmodern parody. The themes and the form of the horror novel are deployed by Ellis to identify and critique specific aspects of contemporary American society in the context of a canonically structured narration.
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Dentith, Simon, Parody, London, Routledge, 2000.
Derrida, Jacques, Spettri di Marx, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 1994.
Forest, Philippe, Le Roman, le réel, in Le Roman, le réel et autres essais, Nantes, Cécile Defaut, 2007, pp. 19-107.
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king-lunar-park-being-homage-him/.
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Schmitt, Arnaud, Je réel/je fictif. Au-delà d’une confusion postmoderne, Toulouse, Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2010.
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Stephenson, William, A Terrorism of the Rich: Symbolic Violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama and J. G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes, in «Critique: Studies in Contempo- rary Fiction», xlviii/3 (2007), pp. 278-93.
Tirinanzi De Medici, Carlo, Il vero e il convenzionale, Torino, Utet, 2012.
— Su alcuni aspetti dell’autofinzione, in «Il Verri», lxiv (2017), pp. 19-39.
Truffin, Sherry R., Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park, in A Companion to the American Gothic, ed. by Charlers L. Crow, Malden (MA), John Wiley and Sons, 2014, pp. 56-67.
Wagner, Hank, Small Town Horror, in Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopedia, ed. by Sunand T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz, Westport, Greenwood Press, 2005, vol. iii, pp. 1037-40.
Weinreich, Martin, “Into the Void”: The Hyperrealism of Simulation in Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, in «Amerikastudien / American Studies», xlix/1 (2004), pp. 65-78.
Worthington, Marjorie, Fiction in the “Post-Truth” Era: The Ironic Effects of Autofiction, in «Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction», lviii/5 (2017), pp. 471- 483.
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MALVESTIO, Marco.
Celebrity, fatherhood, paranoia: the post-postmodern gothic of Lunar Park.
Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, [S.l.], n. 11, p. 343-361, giu. 2019.
ISSN 2284-4473.
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