000227396 000__ 01747cam\a2200361\a\45e0 000227396 001__ 227396 000227396 005__ 20210513091422.0 000227396 008__ 000207s1998\\\\ilu\\\\\\b\\\s001\0\eng\\ 000227396 010__ $$a 97004639 000227396 020__ $$a025206657X (pbk. : alk. paper) 000227396 020__ $$a025202351X (alk. paper) 000227396 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm36386944 000227396 035__ $$a227396 000227396 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC 000227396 043__ $$an-us---$$ae-uk-en 000227396 049__ $$aISEA 000227396 05000 $$aPS228.A6$$bM66 1998 000227396 08200 $$a810.9/353$$221 000227396 1001_ $$aMonroe, William Frank,$$d1952- 000227396 24510 $$aPower to hurt :$$bthe virtues of alienation /$$cWilliam Monroe. 000227396 260__ $$aUrbana :$$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$$cc1998. 000227396 300__ $$axi, 243 p. ;$$c23 cm. 000227396 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000227396 5050_ $$aStrategies, 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. 000227396 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000227396 650_0 $$aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature. 000227396 650_0 $$aSocial isolation in literature. 000227396 650_0 $$aBoredom in literature. 000227396 650_0 $$aViolence in literature. 000227396 650_0 $$aPostmodernism (Literature)$$zUnited States. 000227396 650_0 $$aLiterature and society$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000227396 650_0 $$aEnglish literature$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000227396 85200 $$bgen$$hPS228.A6$$iM66$$i1998 000227396 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:227396$$pGLOBAL_SET 000227396 980__ $$aBIB 000227396 980__ $$aBOOK 000227396 994__ $$aE0$$bISE