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02257nam a2200457 a 4500 001 6B6E6BFE2AF711DEB0402C07A8D7520A 005 200904162128.0 008 970131s1998 ilu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 97004639 020 $a 9780252023514 (alk. paper) 020 $a 025202351X (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780252066573 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 025206657X (pbk. : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d IaU $d SILO 050 00 $a PS228.A6 $b M66 1998 082 00 $a 810.9/353 $2 21 100 1 $a Monroe, William Frank, $d 1952- 245 1 $a Power to hurt : $b the virtues of alienation / $c William Monroe. 260 $a Urbana : $b University of Illinois Press, $c c1998. 300 $a xi, 243 p. ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a "An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Strategies, performances, virtues -- A performance paradigm -- Reading, empathy, alienation -- Virtue criticism as cultural criticism -- Necessary troublemakers -- "Heaven's graces" : gnostic strategies -- "Sweetest things" : aesthetic strategies -- "Nature's riches" : parabolic strategies -- Reluctant performers -- "Others but stewards" : T.S. Eliot's gnostic impulse -- "Lords and owners" : Vladimir Nabokov's sequestered imagination -- "The basest weed" : Donald Barthelme's parabolic fairy tale. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Alienation (Social psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Social isolation in literature. 650 0 $a Boredom in literature. 650 0 $a Violence in literature. 650 0 $a Postmodernism (Literature) $z United States. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism 939 $a 3782997 941 $a 7 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718072603.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926072453.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180103014018.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160818064441.0 952 $l OSAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6B6E6BFE2AF711DEB0402C07A8D7520AInitiate Another SILO Locator Search