Essays about: "Sign-exchange value"

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  1. 1. Patrick Bateman, Violence and Consumption: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Alexander Nystrand; [2010]
    Keywords : Marxism; Consumption; Consumerism; Homogeneity; Commodities; Use-value; Exchange-value; Sign-exchange value; Socioeconomic; Class-consciousness; Commodity fetishism.;

    Abstract : This essay investigates how Bret Easton Ellis portrays Patrick Bateman as a projection of American society, in order to criticize consumerism and capitalism in his novel American Psycho. By applying Marxist theory, this essay examines Bateman's consumption patterns and class-consciousness using key Marxist terms. READ MORE