Who Needs Religion When You Have The Desert?: A psychological investigation into the trope of the desert

Bent Sørensen

Who Needs Religion When You Have The Desert? A psychological investigation into the trope of the desert

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Abstract

In my paper I propose to read so-called ‘post-ironic’ texts by authors associated with the Blank Generation and Generation X (including Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland, as well as less well-known authors such as K.S. Haddock) and examine their use of the desert as a trope for identity testing and summation. Perhaps surprisingly, one finds in novels such as Ellis’ Less Than Zero (1984) and Coupland’s Generation X (1991) a reliance on desert locations to provide an alternative to the numerous non-places (in Marc Augé’s sense of the term) that otherwise make up the setting of these works.

Original language	English
Publication date	Jul 2016
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - Jul 2016
Event	33rd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France Duration: 29 Jun 2016 → 4 Jul 2016 Conference number: 33rd annual http://conf.psyartjournal.com/2016/

Conference

Conference	33rd International Conference on Psychology and the Arts
Number	33rd annual
Location	Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Country/Territory	France
City	Reims
Period	29/06/2016 → 04/07/2016
Internet address	http://conf.psyartjournal.com/2016/

Keywords

American Literature
Canadian Literature
Religion

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