Información General

• Autores: Francisco Collado Rodríguez (coord.)
• Editores: Bloomsbury Academic
• Año de publicación: 2013
• País: Reino Unido
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781441174321
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Resumen

• Offering a world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists. This book is the first guide to bring together scholars from a full range of critical perspectives to explore three of Palahniuk's most widely-studied novels: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke. Examining these works in light of such key critical themes as violence, masculinity, postmodern aesthetics and trauma, the book also explores the ethical dimension of Palahniuk's work that is often lost in the heat of the controversies surrounding his books.

  Together with annotated guides to further reading, Chuck Palahniuk also includes section introductions surveying the contexts and reception of each novel, making this an essential guide for students and scholars of contemporary literature.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction: Chuck Palahniuk and the posthuman being

    Francisco Collado Rodríguez

    págs. 1-17

    

  • Part. I: Fight Club

    • Violence, spaces, and a fragmenting consciousness in Fight club

      James R. Giles

      págs. 23-44

      

    • The avatars of masculinity: how not to be a man

      Eduardo Mendieta

      págs. 45-60

      

    • Body contact: acting out is the best defense in Fight club

      Laurie Vickroy

      págs. 61-76

      

  • Part. II: Invisible Monsters

    • Invisible monsters and Palahniuk's perverse sublime

      Andrew Slade

      págs. 81-96

      

    • The opposite of a miracle: trauma in Invisible monsters

      Richard Viskovic, Eluned Summers Bremmer

      págs. 97-115

      

    • From solid to liquid: Invisible monsters and the blank fiction road story

      Sonia Baelo Allué

      págs. 117-136

      

  • Part. III: Choke

    • Chuck Palahniuk's edible complex

      Jesse Kavadlo

      págs. 141-156

      

    • Anger, anguish, and art: Choke

      David Cowart

      págs. 157-171

      

    • Addiction in Choke

      María Nieves Pascual Soler

      págs. 175-193