M Keith Booker

Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature

Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque

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Produktbeschreibung

The author of this text maintains that literary works contribute to genuine social change, and when read with ""transgressive energy"" erode oppressive political structures and undermine authoritarian ideologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1991
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780813010656
• ISBN-10: 0813010659
• Artikelnr.: 54378124

Autorenporträt

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.