Power to hurt : the virtues of alienation / William Monroe.

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.
Local noteLittle-315160--305131028541X
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97004639
ISBN025202351X (alk. paper)
ISBN025206657X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS228.A6 M66 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold