The postmodern toon : (Totalitarian) "Fascism", violence, and cartoons in postmodernist literature about America.

This thesis sets out to investigate the representation of politics as a cartoon in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and Vineland, and to apply what we find to Bret Easton Ellis's controversial American Psycho. This investigation will also hold implications for other postmodernist literature,...

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Main Author: Wise, Phillip
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. English 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5589