The article considers Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park (2005) an example of the post-postmodern approach in genre fiction, highlighting the distance from the characteristically postmodern parody. The themes and the form of the horror novel are deployed by Ellis to identify and critique specific aspects of contemporary American society in the context of a canonically structured narration.
CELEBRITY, FATHERHOOD, PARANOIA: THE POST-POSTMODERN GOTHIC OF LUNAR PARK
Malvestio, M
2019
Abstract
The article considers Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park (2005) an example of the post-postmodern approach in genre fiction, highlighting the distance from the characteristically postmodern parody. The themes and the form of the horror novel are deployed by Ellis to identify and critique specific aspects of contemporary American society in the context of a canonically structured narration.
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