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Fiction As a Conversation: Unreliable Narrators, Pop Culture, and Violence in David Foster Wallace’s “Girl With Curious Hair” and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho Cover

Fiction As a Conversation: Unreliable Narrators, Pop Culture, and Violence in David Foster Wallace’s “Girl With Curious Hair” and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

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|Jun 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/9 | Journal eISSN: 2732-0421 | Journal ISSN: 1218-7364
Language: English
Page range: 164 - 188
Published on: Jun 28, 2023
Published by: University of Debrecen
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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