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

Main Author: Booker, M. Keith.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©1993.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=20697
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.