Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction – Mgr. Adéla Smažilová
Mgr. Adéla Smažilová
Master's thesis
Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction
Achieving Cult Status: Chuck Palahniuk's Early Fiction
Abstract:
In my thesis I examine cultural mechanisms which led to establishment of a cult status of American writer Chuck Palahniuk in contemporary popular culture. The first part of the thesis focuses on literary analysis of his two early novels Fight Club and Survivor. The second part of the thesis diagnoses Palahniuk’s writing style and his main topics so as to reveal how his novels became texts of popular …more
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 22. 8. 2007
Identifier:
https://is.muni.cz/th/c7qae/
Thesis defence
- Date of defence: 10. 9. 2007
- Supervisor: Stepen Hardy, PhD.
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Institution archiving the thesis and making it accessible: Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakultaMasaryk University
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Humanities / English Language and Literature
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