Publication detail

Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context

SMAŽILOVÁ, A.

Original Title

Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context

Type

book

Language

English

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.

Keywords

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Survivor, modern male identity, popular culture, masochism, postmodern urban context

Authors

SMAŽILOVÁ, A.

Released

23. 9. 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

1

Pages to

88

Pages count

88

URL

https://www.scholars-press.com/catalog/details/store/gb/book/978-3-639-66438-6/achieving-cult-status:-chuck-palahniuk’s-early-fiction?search=Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction

BibTex

@book{BUT118621,
  author="Adéla {Smažilová}",
  title="Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction: Male identity crisis, nihilism and critique of consumerism in postmodern urban context",
  year="2014",
  publisher="Scholars' Press",
  edition="1",
  pages="1--88",
  isbn="978-3639664386",
  url="https://www.scholars-press.com/catalog/details/store/gb/book/978-3-639-66438-6/achieving-cult-status:-chuck-palahniuk’s-early-fiction?search=Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction"
}