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  1. Literature and domination
    sex, knowledge, and power in modern fiction
    Author: Booker, M. Keith
    Published: ©1993
    Publisher:  University Press of Florida, Gainesville

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Bibliotheksverbund Bayern (BVB)

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0813019133; 9780813019130; 0813011957
    Subjects: TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Dominance (Psychology) in literature; Fiction; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Sex role in literature; Fiction; Dominance (Psychology) in literature; Sex role in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Geschlechterverhältnis <Motiv>; Literatur; Machtkampf <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (188 pages)
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    Paralleltitel: Literature & domination

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Employing thc 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. For all of the texts read, such issues are explored in terms not only of content but of style and form. What is distinctive about many modern texts, Booker claims, is the reflexive way literary meditations on power, authority, and domination turn inward to involve examinations of textuality and reading as images of the kinds of struggles for mastery that inform society at large. Booker suggests that literary knowledge is of a different order than the traditional theoretical knowledge that is equated with power in the West. "Literature has the potential to explore and illuminate objects of inquiry in a mode of dialogue and performance rather than by seeking to dominate them in the traditional mode of science," he writes. "Especially in the difficult and complex texts of modern literature, successful reading requires that readers and texts work together, pointing toward ways the human drive for mastery can be fulfilled through cooperation rather than through demanding the submission of some Other who is being mastered or dominated."

    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
  2. Literature and domination
    sex, knowledge, and power in modern fiction
    Author: Booker, M. Keith.
    Published: 1993
    Publisher:  University Press of Florida, Gainesville ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Employing thc 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... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    Employing thc 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. For all of the texts read, such issues are explored in terms not only of content but of style and form. What is distinctive about many modern texts, Booker claims, is the reflexive way literary meditations on power, authority, and domination turn inward to involve examinations of textuality and reading as images of the kinds of struggles for mastery that inform society at large. Booker suggests that literary knowledge is of a different order than the traditional theoretical knowledge that is equated with power in the West. "Literature has the potential to explore and illuminate objects of inquiry in a mode of dialogue and performance rather than by seeking to dominate them in the traditional mode of science," he writes. "Especially in the difficult and complex texts of modern literature, successful reading requires that readers and texts work together, pointing toward ways the human drive for mastery can be fulfilled through cooperation rather than through demanding the submission of some Other who is being mastered or dominated."...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0813019133; 9780813019130
    RVK Categories: EC 2220
    Subjects: Dominanz; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (188 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. Literature and domination
    sex, knowledge, and power in modern fiction
    Published: c1993
    Publisher:  University Press of Florida, Gainesville

    Employing thc 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... more

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    Hochschule Aalen, Bibliothek
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    Hochschule Esslingen, Bibliothek
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    Saarländische Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität
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    Employing thc 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. For all of the texts read, such issues are explored in terms not only of content but of style and form. What is distinctive about many modern texts, Booker claims, is the reflexive way literary meditations on power, authority, and domination turn inward to involve examinations of textuality and reading as images of the kinds of struggles for mastery that inform society at large. Booker suggests that literary knowledge is of a different order than the traditional theoretical knowledge that is equated with power in the West. "Literature has the potential to explore and illuminate objects of inquiry in a mode of dialogue and performance rather than by seeking to dominate them in the traditional mode of science," he writes. "Especially in the difficult and complex texts of modern literature, successful reading requires that readers and texts work together, pointing toward ways the human drive for mastery can be fulfilled through cooperation rather than through demanding the submission of some Other who is being mastered or dominated

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0813019133; 9780813019130
    Subjects: Fiction; Dominance (Psychology) in literature; Sex role in literature; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Fiction; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Fiction; Sex role in literature; Dominance (Psychology) in literature; TRAVEL ; Special Interest ; Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Dominance (Psychology) in literature; Fiction; Power (Social sciences) in literature; Sex role in literature; Literature - General; Languages & Literatures; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: Online Ressource (188 p.)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record

    Introduction: Literature and Domination1. 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.