Reading Chuck Palahniuk

Cynthia Kuhn is Associate Professor of English at Metropolitan State College. Lance Rubin is Associate Professor and Humanities Chair at Arapahoe Community College.

• List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Cynthia Kuhn and Lance Rubin, Introduction Part I. Genres, Structures, and Modes 1. Sidney L. Sondergard, "Chuck Palahniuk and the Semiotics of Personal Doom: The Novelist as Escape Artist" 2. Andrew Ng, "Destruction and the Discourse of Deformity: Invisible Monsters and the Ethics of Atrocity" 3. Cynthia Kuhn, "I Am Marla’s Monstrous Wound: Fight Club and The Gothic" 4.Christina Angel, "‘This Theatre of Mass Destruction’: Medieval Morality and Jacobean Convention in Palahniuk’s Novels" 5. Andrew Slade, "On Mutilation: The Sublime Body of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fiction" 6. Sherry R. Truffin, "‘This is what passes for free will’: Chuck Palahniuk’s Postmodern Gothic" 7. Joshua Parker, "‘Where you’re supposed to be’: Apostrophe and Apocalypse in Chuck Palahniuk" Part II. Politics, Cultures, and Philosophies 8. Jesse Kavadlo, "With Us or Against Us: Chuck Palahniuk’s 9/11" 9. David Simmons and Nicola Allen, "Reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor and Haunted as a Critique of ‘The Culture Industry’" 10. Lance Rubin, "The Politics of Boredom: Punk, the Situationist International and Chuck Palahniuk’s Rant" 11. Alex E. Blazer, "The Phony ‘Martyrdom of Saint Me’: Choke, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Problem of Postmodern Narcissistic Nihilism" 12. Peter Mathews, "The Politics of Voice in Palahniuk’s Lullaby" 13. G. Christopher Williams, "Nihilism and Buddhism in a Blender: The Religion of Chuck Palahniuk" 14. Devin Harner, "True Stories and Beaded Necklaces: Fandom and Chuck Palahniuk’s Writing as Ritual" 15. Steffen Hantke, "Blood on the Bookstore Floor: Chuck Palahniuk and the Case of the Fainting Reader" Notes on Contributors Kenneth G. MacKendrick and Nicole Goulet, Selected Bibliography Index