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Author:

Monroe, William Frank, 1952-

Title:

Power to hurt : the virtues of alienation / William Monroe.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xi, 243 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Social isolation in literature.
Boredom in literature.
Violence in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism

Notes:

"An Illini book from the University of Illinois Press." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780252023514 (alk. paper)
025202351X (alk. paper)
9780252066573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
025206657X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

97004639

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)