Power to hurt : the virtues of alienation - Monroe, William Frank (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1998)
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: 1900-luku; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Boredom in literature; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States; Social isolation in literature; Violence in literature; englanninkielinen kirjallisuus; kirjallisuudentutkimus; kirjallisuus; postmodernismi; vieraantuminen; väkivalta; yhteiskunta; Yhdysvallat