Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque

Booker, M. Keith

ISBN 10: 0813010659 / ISBN 13: 9780813010656

Published by University Press of Florida, 1991

About this Item

Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are age toned. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket shows just a little light edgewear and the dust jacket spine is lightly foxed. 294pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813010659
• ISBN 13: 9780813010656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism

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Synopsis

 

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.
 

About the Author

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.