Confessions of an American Psycho: James Hogg's and Bret Easton Ellis's Anti-Heroes' Journey from Vulnerability to Violence

Ellis's and Hogg's universe seems to have reached the point of complete absence of order-a further stage in the gradual sacrificial crisis of the modern world. Both texts are set at the end of an era, a culture: the Confessions just prior to the Union of Parliaments that sealed the depende...

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Published in:Contagion (Greenville, N.C.) N.C.), 2008-01, Vol.15/16 (1), p.185-200
Main Author: Cojocaru, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American literature
Deceit
Depersonalization
Desire
Ellis, Bret Easton (1964- )
Hogg, James (1770-1835)
Identity
Killing
Literary criticism
Movies
Murder
Narratives
Nothingness
Novels
Political theory
Violence
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Summary:Ellis's and Hogg's universe seems to have reached the point of complete absence of order-a further stage in the gradual sacrificial crisis of the modern world. Both texts are set at the end of an era, a culture: the Confessions just prior to the Union of Parliaments that sealed the dependence of Scotland on England, whereas American Psycho implicitly deals with the Wall Street crash of 1987..91 The texts demonstrate that at the root of the collapse of both cultures is deviated transcendency, which results, through the failure of the judicial system, in unrestrained violence.
ISSN:1075-7201
1930-1200
1930-1200
DOI:10.1353/ctn.0.0030