Review of "White" by Bret Easton Ellis by Mark Tardi

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Abstract Space in Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero by Mohsen Rezaeian, Bahee Hadaegh

“…This process of homogenization acts as a mechanism of control to preserve the current status quo. In Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero, abstract space, by homogenizing and fragmenting the body and lived experience, makes the characters comply with the consumer culture and suppresses the potentials for the difference and the emergence of alternative spaces. …”
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Symbolic Consumption and Media in Bret Easton Ellis’s Less than Zero by Mohsen Khaleseh Dehghan, Bakhtiar Sadjadi

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Bret Easton Ellis' Controversial Fiction: Writing between High and Low Culture by María del Mar Ramón Torrijos

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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. In harmony with the playful spirit of postmodernism, the diegetic author behaves like the conjurers who disclose the tricks of their trade without destroying the essence of their magic. …”
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Identity erosion in Bret Easton Ellis' Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms. by Kalimani, Sara Vahabi

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Il bardo dell’anedonia. Bret Easton Ellis e Imperial Bedrooms: un’intervista by Valeria Gennero

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Baelo-Allué, Sonia.Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction : Writing Between High and Low Culture by Tatiani G. Rapatzikou

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The Mirror of Consumption and Media in American Postmodern Fiction: A Baudrillardian Reading of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho by محسن خالصه دهقان, بختیار سجادی

“…Closely referring to Jean Baudrillard’s critical concepts, the present research contends that the fictional characters of Bret Easton Ellis, particularly in American Psycho, are prone to this postmodern world, where all experience via consumption has become fathomless, and traditional notions of identity have been changed. …”
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De Bateman à Bacon : surface et profondeur dans deux romans de Bret Easton Ellis by René ALLADAYE

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Authorship and the production of literary value, 1982-2012: Bret Easton Ellis, Paul Auster, JT LeRoy, and Tucker Max. by Lutton, A

“…</p> <p>Through in-depth focus on the cases of a number of unconventional contemporary American authors whose work demonstrates differing, innovative approaches to the process of authorship, this thesis exposes the ways in which contemporary, atypically ‘literary’ instances of writing can and do work within and develop beyond traditional conceptualisations of authorship and literary value. Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney, largely critically considered prototypical ‘celebrity’ authors, are in the first chapter reconsidered as writers whose understanding of their position within the literary marketplace affords them a self-conscious, critical perspective on the notion of celebrity in their work and public personae. …”

Dans le creux de l’écrit se crée la créature. Le personnage récurrent dans l’œuvre de Bret Easton Ellis by Sophie BARRÈRE

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American underground spirit: Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground and the 20th century USA literature by Panova, Olga Yu.

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Contemporaneidade: uma psicopatia americana? Contemporaneidad: ¿una psicopatía americana? Contemporaneity: an american psychopathy? by Simone Martins

“…O objetivo deste artigo é questionar alguns desses conceitos tão arraigados no Ocidente utilizando recortes do livro "O psicopata americano", de Bret Easton Ellis, como ilustração e ponto de partida para refletir acerca de alguns aspectos. …”
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Generation X in Slovenia(n) by Romi Češčut

“…The paper aims to explore the reception of novels by Douglas Coupland, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jay McInerney and their analyses with emphasis on narrative, themes of consumerism and mass media, characters, and style of writing.…”
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Writing Men: Recognising the sociological value of counter-hegemonic masculinities in American fiction by Peter Ferry

“…Identifying masculinity as a major theme of the American literary tradition, this article engages in a case study analysis of canonical writers of contemporary American fiction, namely Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, and Bret Easton Ellis. Engaging with Raewyn Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity to analyse critically the protagonists of these authors allows a range of issues to emerge - namely the impact of fatherhood, the influence of the male peer group, and the impact globalization of the performance of masculinity. …”
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Painful Lust: Status and Consumerism in American Psycho by Jefferson de Moura Saraiva

“…In this paper, this process is analyzed in the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. Depicting the 1980s New York City yuppie generation, the novel offers an interesting and thoughtful insight of a consumerist mindset. …”
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Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima

“…In the history of literature and cinema, it’s impossible to forget some very widely known characters called psychos, especially those created by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Bret Easton Ellis, Sarah Kane and Patrick McGrath. Usually, they are haunted not only by their own private memories, but also by a literary memory that associates them to a common heritage, as if each psychotic character belonged to a very old gothic family, in which every member had been cursed to inherit the disease of his ancestors or the sins of his fathers. …”
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Merging reality and the ideal through consumption. by Siti Nursyafiqa Rahman.

“…Consumerism is undeniably a large part of post-modern society due to the notion that identity is very much determined by the objects that one possesses. Using Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero and Don Delillo’s White Noise, this paper attempts to deconstruct this identity-object relationship in order to argue that rather than the material object, it is the image that the consumer desires because it creates, recreates and, most importantly, asserts the self. …”
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The Rise of the Comics Künstlerroman, or, the Limits of Comics Acceptance: The Depiction of Comics Creators in the Work of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel by Daniel King

“…The künstlerroman is a genre with a long and celebrated past. From Bret Easton Ellis’ Lunar Park (2005) to John Irving’s The World According to Garp (1978) and Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift (1975), the genre has occupied a prominent place in bestseller lists and awards shortlists. …”
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