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Employing the theoretical resources provided by cultural critics such as Adorno, Jameson, Althusser, and Foucault, M. Keith Booker examines the treatment of issues of power and domination in modern literature. Discussing texts such as Virginia Woolfs The Waves, Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita, Thomas Pynchons V., and Italo Calvinos If on a winters night a traveler, Booker focuses on gender relations as a locus of struggles for power in human relations generally. He also pays special attention to the work of Samuel Beckett, reading the novels Watt and The Lost Ones to explore the issues of power and domination in an Irish cultural context.
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Literature and Domination : Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction
author
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Booker, M. Keith.
publisher
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University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin
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0813011957
print isbn13
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9780813011950
ebook isbn13
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9780813019130
language
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English
subject
Fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Dominance (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature, Power (Social sciences) in literature.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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PN3503.B62 1993eb
ddc
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808.3
subject
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Fiction--20th century--History and criticism, Dominance (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature, Power (Social sciences) in literature.
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Literature and Domination
Sex, Knowledge, and Power in Modern Fiction
M. Keith Booker
University Press of Florida Gainesville Tallahassee Tampa Boca Raton Pensacola Orlando Miami Jacksonville
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Copyright 1993 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Booker, M. Keith. Literature and domination: sex, knowledge, and power in modern fiction / M. Keith Booker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8130-1195-7 1. Fiction20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Dominance (Psychology) in literature. 3. Sex role in literature. 4. Power (Social sciences) in literature. 1. Title. PN3503.B62 1993 809.3'04dc20 92-41442
The University Press of Florida is the scholarly publishing agency for the State University System of Florida, comprised of Florida A & M University, Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, University of North Florida, University of South Florida, and University of West Florida.
University Press of Florida 15 Northwest 15th Street Gainesville, FL 32611
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for ADAM BOOKER
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Contents
Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Literature and Domination
1
1. This Is Not a Pot: The Assault on Scientific Language in Samuel Beckett's Watt
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2. Tradition, Authority, and Subjectivity: Narrative Constitution of the Self in The Waves
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3. Adorno, Althusser, and Humbert Humbert: Nabokov's Lolita as Neo-Marxist Critique of Bourgeois Subjectivity
70
4. Mastery and Sexual Domination: Imperialism as Rape in Pynchon's V.
90
5. Who's the Boss? Reader, Author, and Text in Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
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6. Against Epistemology in Reading and Teaching: The Failure of Interpretive Mastery in Beckett's The Lost Ones
142
Notes
161
Works Cited
175
Index
185
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank various individuals who read and commented on parts or all of this manuscript, including Robert Cochran of the University of Arkansas and Brandon Kershner, Alistair Duckworth, and Al Shoaf of the University of Florida. Special thanks are due to John Krafft of the University of Miami (Ohio), Hamilton, who read the entire manuscript closely and made numerous helpful suggestions for revision. I would also like to thank the staff at the University Press of Florida, who have been so helpful to me with this and other projects: Deidre Bryan, Larry Leshan, Walda Metcalf, and especially Lisa Compton, who edited the manuscript in a way that was both highly beneficial and quite painless to me. Finally, I would like to thank Dubravka Juraga, who not only read and commented on the manuscript but (as always) provided support and inspiration in numerous other ways as well.
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Chapter 2 was originally published (under the same title) in LIT 3 (1991): 3355 (copyright by Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers S.A.) and is reprinted here in slightly revised form by permission of the publisher.
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Introduction: Literature and Domination
In act 1 of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot we meet Pozzo, a typical Beckettian tyrant figure who enforces his power over his slave Lucky with violence and brute force. Yet Pozzo reappears in the second act as blind and lame, virtually helpless and certainly unable physically to enforce his domination of Lucky. In this sense Pozzo can be read as a representation of the breakdown in traditional structures of authority that so haunts (and inspires) the modernist literary imagination. Importantly, however, Lucky remains as submissive as ever, so attuned to his enslaved condition that he automatically responds to orders even when he is not compelled to do so. In the modern world, traditional figures of authority (God, priests, monarchs, etc.) no longer serve as effective legitimating anchors for the power they once wielded. And yet, in the absence of new authorities to replace the old, that power itself often remains as fully in force as ever.
Vivian Mercier has noted that the PozzoLucky relation has special resonances for Irish audiences, with Pozzo appearing as a stereo-typical Irish landlord and Lucky as the typical serflike Irish peasant who is subjugated to him (53). Indeed, Beckett's depiction of the ongoing power of conventional institutions in an age of disbelief
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