Literature and domination : sex, knowledge, and power in modern fiction /

Employing thc theoretical resources provided by cultural critics such as Adorno, Jameson, Althusser, and Foucault, M. Keith Booker examines the treatment of issues of power and domination in modern literature. Discussing texts such as Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Booker, M. Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1993.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Dominance (Psychology) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Dominance (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) dans la littérature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Dominance (Psychology) in literature
Fiction
Power (Social sciences) in literature
Sex role in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Literature and Domination
  • 1. This Is Not a Pot: The Assault on Scientific Language in Samuel Beckett's Watt
  • 2. Tradition, Authority, and Subjectivity: Narrative Constitution of the Self in The Waves
  • 3. Adorno, Althusser, and Humbert Humbert: Nabokov's Lolita as Neo-Marxist Critique of Bourgeois Subjectivity
  • 4. Mastery and Sexual Domination: Imperialism as Rape in Pynchon's V.
  • 5. Who's the Boss? Reader, Author, and Text in Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
  • 6. Against Epistemology in Reading and Teaching: The Failure of Interpretive Mastery in Beckett's The Lost Ones.

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