Power to hurt : the virtues of alienation /
Monroe, William Frank,1952-
Urbana : University of Illinois Press,
c1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
American literature
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Social isolation in literature.
Boredom in literature.
Violence in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and society
English literature