Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature

by Booker, M. Keith

• ISBN13: 9780813010656
• ISBN10: 0813010659
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-10-28
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the world's most respected and widely read living writers. His work is marked by technical sophistication and by its alliance with a variety of trends in modern culture. To date little criticism of his work has made use of the important developments in literary theory in the past two decades. This book does that, analyzing Vargas Llosa's place in modern and postmodern criticism.

Author Biography

M. Keith Booker is associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas and the author of Literature and Domination: Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction (UPF, 1993), Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque (UPF, 1991) and a number of essays on literature and literary theory.  He began his career in science and engineering and worked for fourteen years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Postmodernism in Medieval England: Chaucer, Pynchon, Joyce, and the Poetics of Fission	p. 20
Beauty and the Beast: Dualism as Despotism in The Fiction of Salman Rushdie	p. 49
The Dynamics of Literary Transgression in Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew	p. 72
Transgression Without God: Sexuality, Textuality, and Infinity in the French Lieutetnant's Woman	p. 102
The Penis He Thought Was His Own": Castration as Literary Transgression"	p. 132
What's the Difference?: The Carnivalization of Gender in Virginia Woolf's Orlando	p. 162
Women in Love and War: Lesbianism as Subversion in the Fiction of Monique Wittig	p. 186
Abjection and the Carnivalesque: Transgression in Nightwood and Nights at the Circus	p. 210
Postscript	p. 244
Notes	p. 249
Works Cited	p. 274
Index	p. 291
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