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University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
243

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Subjects
History and criticism, Literature and society, Violence in literature, Postmodernism (Literature), English literature, American literature, Social isolation in literature, Boredom in literature, Alienation (Social psychology) in literature, History, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Aliénation (Psychologie sociale) dans la littérature, Isolement social dans la littérature, Ennui (Lassitude) dans la littérature, Violence dans la littérature, Postmodernisme (Littérature), Littérature et société, Histoire, Littérature anglaise, Entfremdung, Literatur, Aliénation sociale, Dans la littérature, Ennui, Isolement social
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English-speaking countries
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20th century

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Power to hurt: the virtues of alienation
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Urbana

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/353
Library of Congress
PS228.A6 M66 1998, PS228.A6M66 1998

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Pagination
xi, 243 p. ;
Number of pages
243

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OL659327M
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025202351X, 025206657X
LCCN
97004639
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36386944
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1053050
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2199669

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