Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Mannheim, course: Neorealism, language: English, abstract: This paper deals with the novel American Psycho by the American author Bret Easton Ellis and his place amongst other writers of the "blank generation". The term "blank generation fiction" will be defined by citing those literary critics who extensively examined this trend, namely Elizabeth...