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

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998]
	©1998

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS228.A6 M66 1998	Available	---

Description	xi, 243 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	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.
Subject	American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
	Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
	Social isolation in literature.
	Social isolation in literature.
	Boredom in literature.
	Boredom in literature.
	Violence in literature.
	Violence in literature.
	Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
	Postmodernism (Literature)
	United States.
	Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Literature and society.
	History.
	English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	English literature.
ISBN	025206657X paperback alkaline paper
	025202351X alkaline paper