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.…mehr
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.
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.
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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
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
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