@article{ref1,
title="Serial Masculinity: Psychopathology and Oedipal Violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s <i>American Psycho</i>",
journal="Modern fiction studies",
year="2008",
author="Schoene, Berthold",
volume="54",
number="2",
pages="378-397",
abstract="This essay carries out an expressly gender-specific analysis of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, showing how the novel pathologizes modern masculinity by identifying its most characteristic traits as symptoms of a variety of psychopathologies, mental disorders and cognitive impairments. Traditional masculinity is read as a residual, ideologically motivated gender construct that – by endorsing and legitimizing the realization of certain, possibly genetic, male dispositions as a fixed set of behavioral norms and imperatives – promotes the genesis a type of male subjectivity that displays conspicuous similarities particularly to Asperger’s Syndrome and high-functioning autism.<p />",
language="",
issn="0026-7724",
doi="10.1353/mfs.0.0014",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0014"
}