Literature and Domination: Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction

by Booker, M. Keith
ISBN: 9780813011950
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Employing the theoretical resources provided by cultural critics such as Adorno, Jameson, Althusser, and Foucault, M. Keith Booker examines the treatment of issues of power and domination in modern literature. Discussing texts such as Virginia Woolf's The Waves, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Thomas Pynchon's V., and Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, Booker focuses on gender relations as a locus of struggles for power in human relations generally. He also pays special attention to the work of Samuel Beckett, reading the novels Watt and The Lost Ones to explore the issues of power and domination in an Irish cultural context.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Booker, M. Keith
  • ISBN: 9780813011950
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.26 x 0.81
  • Number Of Pages: 198
  • Publication Year: 1993