Clothing and Its Connotations in Postmodern American Fiction: A Discussion of Bret Easton Ellis's "American Psycho", William Gibson's "Pattern Recogni

by Theresa Wenzel

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of G?ttingen, language: English, abstract: Clothes, as Diana Crane establishes in her book Fashion and Its Social Agendas, "are a major tool in the construction of identity, offering a wide range of choices for the expression of lifestyles or subcultural identities" (171). However: "Social scientists have not articulated a definitive interpretation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3640175026
• ISBN13: 9783640175024
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"