David McCracken

Chuck Palahniuk and the Comic Grotesque

Subversion of Ideology in the Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

With the success of Fight Club, his novel-turned-movie, Chuck Palahniuk has become noticed for accurately capturing the exploitation of power in America in the 21st century. With cynicism and skepticism, he satirizes the manipulative aspects of ideologies and beliefs pushing society's understanding of the norm. In this work, Palahniuk's characters are analyzed as people who rebel against the systems in control. Mikhail Bakhtin's theory is applied to explain Palahniuk's application of the comic grotesque; theories from Louis Althusser and Slavoj ¿i¿ek help reveal aspects of ideology in Palahniuk's writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781476678177
• ISBN-10: 1476678170
• Artikelnr.: 65449519

Autorenporträt

David McCracken is a professor of English at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. His areas of expertise are American literature, contemporary fiction, and rhetoric and composition.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
One. A Rationale for the Comic Grotesque
Two. The Subversive Power of the Comic Grotesque
Three. "Another last thing today comes down to is reality": The Subversion
of Sexuality in Snuff
Four. "A rude religious revolution": The Subversion of Heaven and Hell in
Damned and Doomed
Five. "You've become something dangerous: a woman": The Subversion of
Feminism in Beautiful You
Six. "The fringe was the future": The Future of Dirty Realism in Make
Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
Seven. "To embrace the blackness": The Irony of Content and Form in Bait
and Legacy
Eight. "Human beings don't cultivate ideas": Subverting Fight Club Ideology
through Fight Club 2 Mythology
Nine. Toward "a structure for communion": Ideological Carnival in
Adjustment Day
Ten. Toward a Palahniuk Aesthetic of Comic Grotesque
Chapter Notes
Works Cited
Index