Copycat: Duplication and Creation in American Psycho and Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis by Frédéric Dumas

“… As the hypotext of Lunar Park (2005), American Psycho (1991) provides many interpretative keys to Bret Easton Ellis’s pseudo autobiographical work. …”
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Grammatized Psychopath by Lea Muldtofte Olsen

“… This paper focuses on Jason Huff and Mimi Cabell rewriting of Brett Easton Ellis’s famous novel in their piece American Psycho 2010. Through the notion of grammatization, and drawinf on Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, it argues that this rewriting, moving from offline to online (and back to offline) literature through Gmail as a filter, not only manifests a here-and-now alternative, consumeristic portrait of Bateman co-authored by Google’s algorithms’ interpretation of the text, but also elucidates a reading and writing otherness.  …”
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De individuos y emociones Algunas reflexiones sobre el papel de las emociones en la vida moral by Rocío Orsi Portalo

“…Para alcanzar este fin, me fijaré en dos personajes literarios, el héroe de la tragedia deSófocles Edipo Rey, por un lado, y Patrick Bateman, el «héroe» de la novela American Psycho,por otro. Ambos personajes representan dos formas extremas de incapacidad moral debidaa un desarrollo emocional enfermo, en un caso, o a una emotividad inadecuada, en el otro.…”
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BARIERE ÎN CALEA TRANSFORMĂRII REPREZENTĂRII SOCIALE. CUADRINOMUL LUI A. GUSKIN by USM ADMIN

“…Guskin, a renowned American psycho sociologist, who identifies eight causes of rejection of the modifications that appear at the level of social cognitions – the sense of competition and of vanity, authoritarianism and dogmatism, the feeling of threatening and fear, prophecies that are fulfilled by themselves (Prophéties que s’accomplissent d’elles-mêmes). …”
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Cinematographic representation of the experience of facing the other in the city space by Dina Akhmetzyanova

“…Films such as Hiroshi Teshigahara’s “The Face of Another”, Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation”, Mary Harron’s “American Psycho”, Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice” and “White Nights” were used as material for the analysis. …”
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Speech Portrait of a Mentally Unhealthy Character as a Translation Problem by E. A. Barmina, O. G. Skidan

“…The material used for analysis includes the novel ‘Flowers for Algernon’ by Daniel Keyes, the short story ‘Survivor Type’ by Stephen King, and the novel ‘American Psycho’ by Bret Easton Ellis. The authors utilize a proposed algorithm of pretranslation analysis as a tool. …”
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Dos casos extremos: tragedia y amoralidad Comentarios a «De individuos y emociones. Algunas reflexiones sobre el papel de las emociones en la vida moral», de Rocío Orsi Portalo by Matilde Carrasco Barranco

“…Algunas reflexiones sobre el papel de lasemociones en la vida moral», de Rocío Orsi, en el que la autora se vale de los ejemplos delEdipo de Sófocles y el asesino de American Psycho para argumentar el papel crucial quedesempeñan las emociones en la motivación y la existencia de una comunidad moral. …”
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The mind on trial: mental illness and capital punishment in America's highest execution state by Deambrogio, C

“…Drawing from critical theory and cultural studies, the thesis argues that despite their claims to scientific objectivity and legal neutrality, American psycho-legal theorists and Texas expert witnesses, defence attorneys, prosecutors, and appellate courts provide morally charged descriptions of mentally ill offenders which reveal a far from dispassionate approach. …”

Identity erosion in Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms. by Kalimani, Sara Vahabi

“…Although Ellis is more famous for his novel American Psycho, these two mentioned novels were selected because a sequel provides an opportunity to explore the character’s identity erosion precisely and observe the changes he went through. …”
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Literary Piracy and the Art of Experimental Narratives by Mongia BESBES

“…Drawing on Jean François Lyotard„s contention that postmodernity is “the incredulity towards grand-narratives”, this chapter shall examine how the rise of new literary genres in postmodern literature is a form of literary piracy. American Psycho (1991), One Flew over the Cuckoo‟s Nest (1962) and Naked Lunch (1959) are three case studies that epitomize piracy in its many folds. …”
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