Publication detail
Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context
SMAŽILOVÁ, A.
Czech title
Chuck Palahniuk: Krize identity muže, nihilismus a kritika konzumerismu v postmoderním městském prostředí
English title
Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context
Type
book
Language
en
Original abstract
In my book I examine cultural mechanisms which led to establishment of a cult status of American writer Chuck Palahniuk in contemporary popular culture. The first part of the book focuses on literary analysis of his two early novels Fight Club and Survivor. The second part of the book diagnoses Palahniuk’s writing style and his main topics so as to reveal how his own novels became texts of popular culture. The third part of the book analyses various interplays between the artist, his readers and culture industry in order to show how Palahniuk’s cult status challenges the position of literature as a genre and as a cultural practice in today’s postmodern urban context.
Czech abstract
V knize jsou zkoumány kulturní mechanismy, které vedly k vytvoření kultovního statusu amerického spisovatele Chucka Palahniuka v současné populární kultuře. Zaměřuje se na literární analýzu jeho dvou raných románů Fight Club a Survivor, popisuje styl a hlavní témata, jakož i literární žánr a kulturní aspekty současného postmoderního městského kontextu.
English abstract
In my book I examine cultural mechanisms which led to establishment of a cult status of American writer Chuck Palahniuk in contemporary popular culture. The first part of the book focuses on literary analysis of his two early novels Fight Club and Survivor. The second part of the book diagnoses Palahniuk’s writing style and his main topics so as to reveal how his own novels became texts of popular culture. The third part of the book analyses various interplays between the artist, his readers and culture industry in order to show how Palahniuk’s cult status challenges the position of literature as a genre and as a cultural practice in today’s postmodern urban context.
Keywords in English
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Survivor, modern male identity, popular culture, masochism, postmodern urban context
Released
23.09.2014
Publisher
Scholars' Press
ISBN
978-3639664386
Book
Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context
Edition number
1
Pages from–to
1–88
Pages count
88
BIBTEX
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author="Adéla {Smažilová},
title="Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context",
booktitle="Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context",
year="2014",
month="September",
pages="1--88",
publisher="Scholars' Press ",
isbn="978-3639664386"
}