"Crawling through these cracks" : the apocalyptic body in contemporary literatures of transgression

Apocalypse narratives and their categorical perversions provide a symptomatology of Western cultural subject-formation, and chart out the subject’s anxious response to his own desire for transcendence. Through close readings of four contemporary American authors: Kathy Acker, Bret Easton Ellis, Chuc...

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Main Author: Foster, Wendy Christine
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/18480